The Baltic blue growth – A country-level shift-share analysis

The conservation and sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources has been declared by the United Nations as one of 17 priority Sustainable Development Goals. At present, most of the maritime states are striving to improve the efficiency of their use of marine resources, including sea space. In particular, the European Union is implementing a number of projects related to the implementation of marine spatial planning (MSP) tools. The Baltic Sea is considered as a pilot region, where a pan-Baltic coordinated MSP plan has been developed to provide for sustainable development and blue growth in the marine and coastal economy. The Russian Federation is one of the Baltic countries, but the MSP procedure at the state level does not have institutional and regulatory support, which requires the elimination of gaps and additional development of the maritime management system. The laws of the organization and development of the general theory of management are used in this study. An Integrated Management Model for sustainable marine and coastal use is proposed as a tool for ensuring blue growth, including four interrelated elements (specific management functions), namely “Integrated Coastal Zone Management”, “Marine Spatial Planning”, “Management of Marine Macroregion” and “Ocean Governance”. Their functional content and interaction mechanisms are discussed in order to implement an integral approach to marine use. The vertical structure of the proposed integral model includes three levels corresponding to the federal and regional levels of government and the level of municipal self-governance. The use of the integral model should help accelerate the process of introducing and using MSP instruments in the process of strategic planning in the socio-economic development of the Russian coastal territories.

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Towards sustainable use of marine resources in the south-eastern Baltic Sea (Lithuania): a review

Baltica ◽

10.5200/baltica.2015.28.15 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 179-188 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Nerijus Blažauskas ◽

Algimantas Grigelis ◽

Leonora Živilė Gelumbauskaitė ◽

Saulius Gulbinskas ◽

Sergej Suzdalev ◽

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Keyword(s):

Baltic Sea ◽

Sustainable Use ◽

Offshore Wind ◽

The South ◽

South Eastern ◽

Dredged Soil ◽

Blue Growth ◽

Marine Economy ◽

The Baltic ◽

Eastern Baltic

The article provides a consistent insight into the results and experience related to the implementation of activities fostering the development of marine economy in Lithuania. EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and the Blue Growth concept explicitly focuses on maintenance of the good status of the marine environment of the European seas. Recently developed Lithuanian integrated maritime spatial plan aims to create the favourable conditions for sustainable development of marine economy, and particularly the offshore wind energy. Proposed and tested innovative solutions for selection of new disposal sites as well as handling the dredged soil in ports, contributes to more environmentally sound and economically feasible operations of the south-eastern Baltic Sea ports.

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Blue Growth Potential in South Baltic Sea Region

Transport and Telecommunication Journal ◽

10.2478/ttj-2020-0006 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 69-83 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robert Philipp ◽

Gunnar Prause ◽

Christopher Meyer

Keyword(s):

Baltic Sea ◽

Mineral Resources ◽

Growth Potential ◽

Primary Data ◽

Annual Growth Rate ◽

Compound Annual Growth Rate ◽

Maritime Economy ◽

Baltic Sea Region ◽

Blue Growth ◽

The Baltic

AbstractThe Baltic Sea Region (BSR) stands for a flagship maritime region in Europe with dominating SME sector. Nevertheless, compared with other European regions, the cooperation and promotion activities of companies that belong to the Blue Economy in South Baltic Sea Region (SBSR) are not sufficient. As a response to this, the EU-project INTERMARE South Baltic aims to support the maritime economy in the SBSR by the creation of a network of companies and stakeholders.In line with the project, this study aims to analyse the future potential of the maritime economy and to identify trends that impact the sustainable development of the blue sector in SBSR. Based on primary data from a SBSR wide survey, descriptive statistical analysis is applied and Compound Annual Growth Rate is used as an indicator. The findings reveal need for actions regarding the sub-sectors Transport, Offshore oil & gas, Aquaculture, Fishery, Mineral resources and Biotechnology.

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IMPACT OF BLUE GROWTH ON BALTIC SEA REGION PORTS

Environment Technology Resources Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference ◽

10.17770/etr2017vol1.2630 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 224

Author(s):

Astrida Rijkure

Keyword(s):

Baltic Sea ◽

Action Plan ◽

Growth Strategy ◽

The Baltic Sea ◽

Raising Awareness ◽

Baltic Sea Region ◽

Blue Growth ◽

Smart Specialization ◽

The Baltic ◽

Port Infrastructure

There is little attention in the Baltics dedicated to the research of ports as economic subjects and their impact on environment. It is vital to strengthen the links between the ports and the Blue Growth while raising awareness of the Blue Growth and making it a cross-cutting issue of the sea-oriented priority areas by creating a special mechanism to support Blue Growth which so far has had insignificant links to port operations. The aim of the article is to analyze the trends and summarize the measures already taken for promotion and integration of the Blue Growth in the Baltic Sea region, and to develop guidelines for ports based on the general and the Baltic Sea Blue Growth strategy, to draw conclusions and to submit proposals for improvement and increase of the Blue Growth. Latvia needs to develop an action plan in order, without unnecessary errors, to quickly implement sustainable port infrastructure and reduce pollution of the sea. The task is to identify the best practices for usage of marine/coastal resources for economic development, and for identification and testing of new smart specialization measures.

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Achieving Blue Growth Post-Weser: a Study of Aquaculture Regulation in the Nordic Region

Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law ◽

10.1163/18760104-18030005 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 256-274

Author(s):

Jonas Kyrönviita ◽

David Langlet ◽

Niko Soininen ◽

Antti Belinskij ◽

Sara Kymenvaara ◽

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Keyword(s):

Coastal Waters ◽

Ecological Status ◽

The Baltic Sea ◽

Nordic Region ◽

Nutrient Emissions ◽

Aquaculture Industry ◽

Blue Growth ◽

Industry Practice ◽

The Common ◽

The Baltic

Abstract This article explores how the conflict between the interests of protecting water quality in the coastal waters of the Baltic Sea from nutrient emissions on one hand, and supporting blue growth in the aquaculture sector on the other, has played out in the Nordic legal systems and industry practice. It does so by reviewing the legal and industrial developments in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and the Åland Islands with a focus on interpretation and application of the common EU regulatory framework, mainly the Water Framework Directive and the ecj Weser ruling, and the response from the aquaculture sector. The study shows that the four studied jurisdictions have taken disparate regulatory approaches in balancing ecological status of waters and blue growth. As a consequence of these legal developments, the aquaculture industry faces difficulty in attaining required permits for their operations in all four jurisdictions and significant uncertainty on how to develop the sector to meet the set growth objectives has arisen.

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Baltic Seaweed Biorefinery

10.7250/9789934225543 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

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Karīna Bāliņa

Keyword(s):

Early Stage ◽

Scientific Information ◽

Growth Strategy ◽

Added Value ◽

Scientific Publications ◽

Seaweed Species ◽

Potential Applications ◽

Blue Growth ◽

Set Up ◽

The Baltic

Seaweeds are one of the world's most underrated biomass resources. They are part of the European Union's 'blue growth' strategy as an alternative resource to meet the growing demand for sustainable biomaterials. The application of the biorefinery concept allows obtaining products with high added value along with the biofuel. The cultivation and use of seaweeds in the Baltic region are in the early stage. In the Thesis, the potential applications of Baltic seaweeds are evaluated by applying the biorefinery concept. During the study, the author develops the research by proposing seaweeds as a feedstock, evaluates the products and technologies potentially applicable in the biorefinery. In order to improve the availability of feedstock, a seaweed cultivation laboratory stand is being set up. The aim of this work is to perform integrated research to evaluate the potential application of the biorefinery concept for seaweed species available in Latvia. More specific this Thesis is addressed to identify potential seaweed species, find out the possible amount of biomass and search for the direction for seaweed utilization so that it constitutes part of the national economy and become recognized as a significant type of the biomass. The Doctoral Thesis is based on seven thematically unified scientific publications published in various scientific journals and are available in scientific information repositories and international databases. The aim of these publications is to identify the seaweed species present in Latvia and to look for the direction for seaweed use. The introduction of the work introduces with the aim and set tasks, describes the structure of the work and provides an overview of the author's practical and scientific contribution. The first chapter provides an overview of the scientific literature, previous research and focuses on the properties of seaweed biomass. The obtained results and discussion are given in the third chapter. Conclusions are made at the end of the work.

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