Ros, Nathalie (2024) What is blue colonialism? Euro Mediterranean Journal of International Law and International Relations (12). p. 59. ISSN 2341-0868
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What is blue colonialism? As a concept, it is an avatar of the privatization of the seas, emblematic of the post-new Law of the Sea; it’s a phenomenon justified in the name of the blue economy, insofar as the context of the Anthropocene implies the economicization of the sea, and facilitated by the functional spatialization of maritime areas, through the development of marine spatial planning and marine protected areas. But, in practice, blue colonialism appears a geopolitically differentiated strategy, initially developed in the Indo-Pacific, in the maritime areas under national jurisdiction of Small Island Developing States, as a model to be replicated, according to a logic of compensation and in order to secure access to the mineral resources needed for the ecological transition; implemented, via the private environmental governance of NGOs and trusts, and the associated financialization of conservation, in the form of a renunciation of sovereignty in favor of a transnational dynamic, blue colonialism is a new legal paradigm at the service of the dominant economic model, but also a blue injustice intending to transfer the burden of the sacrifices onto those who are not responsible for the triple planetary crisis, to continue the growth process.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Blue Economy, Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Conservation, Climate Change, Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 21 May 2025 04:36 |
| Last Modified: | 21 May 2025 04:37 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/22037 |
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