Our Oceans as a Business-Society Nexus: Advancing the Interplay of Blue Economy, Blue Governance and Blue Justice

Éditeurs invités

• Matevž Rašković, Auckland University of Technology
• Noemi Sinkovics, Newcastle University
• Michelle Voyer, University of Wollongong
• Nives Dolšak, University of Washington
• Gurmeet Singh, University of the South Pacific

Synthèse

Our oceans make up 70% of our planet, provide transportation for 80% of global goods in volume and ensure the livelihood of over 3 billion people, including many of the global poor. Oceans represent the largest environment-humanity nexus on Earth in environmental, economic, geopolitical and global security, and socio-cultural terms. Yet, as planetary spaces, our oceans are often thought of as separate from humans in a human-nature duality, which limits research on the place-space embeddedness of business in particular environmental materialities like our oceans.

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Thèmes proposés

• Business models, value creation, and distribution: How do different ocean-based business models create value, who captures the value and who bears costs across communities, ecosystems, and value/supply chains? What trade-offs and paradoxes emerge between economic growth and social/environmental objectives, and how are they justified, negotiated, or contested by various stakeholders and at different levels? How do firms build, maintain, or lose social licence to operate in ocean- and coast-related activities, and what triggers shifts in legitimacy?
• Governance, accountability, and power across levels: How do governance arrangements (e.g., local, national, regional, transnational) shape who gets access, who is included/excluded, and how rules are enforced in ocean and coastal settings? When and why do 'good governance' arrangements still produce undesired social outcomes (e.g., exclusion, livelihood disruption), and what mechanisms explain this? How do firms, states, NGOs, and community actors coordinate or compete to frame problems, set standards, and allocate responsibilities and resources?
• Justice, equity, and lived impacts: How are distributive, procedural, recognitional, and restorative justice concerns expressed in ocean and coastal contexts, and how do they translate into organisational and policy decisions? What forms of inequity arise in practice (e.g., displacement, access restrictions, benefit-sharing), and what interventions have been effective (or ineffective) in redressing them? How do gender, indigeneity, and marginalisation shape participation in governance and benefit-sharing, and what organisational and policy practices enable or constrain inclusion?
• Ownership, stewardship, and legitimacy: Under what conditions are oceans treated as shared spaces versus commodified resources, and how do firms and states influence these framings? What governance designs or institutional arrangements support credible stewardship (beyond compliance), and how are these maintained or evolve over time? How do alternative understandings of stewardship and collective rights (including Indigenous governance) reshape corporate strategy, accountability, and legitimacy?
• Risk, contestation, and the 'dark side': How do illegal, informal, or harmful practices (e.g., illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, labour abuses, illicit trade) become embedded in ocean-related industries, and what enables accountability or impunity? How do firms manage reputational, legal, and operational risks linked to ocean-related activities, and when do risk-management approaches conflict with justice and sustainability aims?