RT Journal Article
T1 Innovating the Blue Economy: A Novel Approach to Stakeholder Landscape Mapping of the Atlantic Area Sea Basin
A1 Depellegrin, Daniel
A1 Zawalna-Geer, Aleksandra
A1 Alexander, Allen
A1 Rodeiro-Pazos, David
A1 Dios Vicente, Adrián
A1 Teillant, Boris
A1 Guneratman, Amita
A1 Hogan, Katen
A1 Mendonça, Emanuel
A1 Ashton, Ian
A1 Johanning, Lars
K1 Blue Economy
K1 Blue growth
K1 North East Atlantic
K1 Maritime sectors
K1 Stakeholder mapping
K1 Geospatial analysis
K1 Financial support
K1 Ocean energy
AB The Blue Economy is an emerging paradigm with the potential to foster balanced socio-economic development of the world’s oceans and coastal areas, but it requires an understanding of the stakeholder landscape at a national and at an international sea basin scale, so that we can model potential equitable and collaborative economic development. Applying a novel, mixed-method approach we collected, collated and analysed spatial and non-spatial stakeholder information from five countries (United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal), that border the North East Atlantic sea basin. Through the development of Blue Economy stakeholder directory for the North East Atlantic area more than 600 local, regional, national and international (EU wide and global) stakeholders were analysed in terms of their Blue Economy alignment and to determine their respective enabling role (financier, service providers, research/innovators and regulators/policy makers). Results show 72% of the North East Atlantic sea basin stakeholders fail to recognise the socio-economic potential of the Blue Economy, regardless of the new policy instruments and a strategic focus from the European Commission. We also identify that public and research/academic institutions currently dominate the landscape of Blue Economy stakeholders; but note this is inconsistent, when compared with other economic sectors in maritime territories. Based on the results, we discuss the key challenges facing equitable growth of the Blue Economy in the North East Atlantic area
PB Frontiers
SN 2296-7745
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39129
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/39129
LA eng
NO Depellegrin, D., Zawalna-Geer, A., Alexander, A., Rodeiro-Pazos, D., Dios-Vicente, A., Teillant, B., ... & Johanning, L. (2022). Innovating the blue economy: A novel approach to stakeholder landscape mapping of the atlantic area sea basin. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 889582.
NO This study was financed by FANBEST Project (http://www.fanbest.eu) - Funding Atlantic Network of Blue Economy Technology Transfer (EAPA 1022/2018; INTERREG Atlantic Area ERDF).
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026