As ocean uses expand, it will be necessary to reduce disputes because they disrupt the environmental sustainability and equity central to a blue economy.
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Millions of jobs could be created from sustainable economic ocean development.
Global ocean research needs to shift priorities to ensure the health and well-being of our oceans, and by extension, humanity.
South Africa’s ocean information management system is helping to mitigate security and environmental risks.
Nigeria’s new marine and blue economy ministry has promise but it must be well run.
Oil spills from a project that’s designed to harness the economic potential of South Africa’s oceans are threatening the world’s largest remaining African Penguin colony.
Melanesia’s oceans are worth at least US$5.4 billion, but are under increasing threat.
The blue economy is unknown, overlooked and underdeveloped in Africa. It could represent a major growth driver for the continent.
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Enseignant chercheur, Université de Rouen Normandie
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Healthy Oceans Program Manager, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland
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Professor, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct professor, Nelson Mandela University
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Honorary Research Associate and Research Manager at SANCCOB, University of Cape Town
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Geospatial scientist
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Senior Scientific Advisor, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
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Director, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town
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CEO, CapeNature
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Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
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Robert Bartlett Professor of Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Associate Director of Georgia Sea Grant, University of Georgia
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Professor of Geoscience, James Madison University
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Professor in Marine Sciences, Stanford University