دانلود کتاب اقتصاد آبی – چشم انداز آسیایی

In scientific jargon, the earth is known as the blue planet. The sky above and the ocean beneath are blue. But in economic jargon, the blue economy represents a sustainable ocean economy.

Oceans are the storehouse of marine living and non-living resources. From time immemorial, humankind has been using these resources for their economic benefit to such an extent that ocean economy occupies a distinct place in economic analy­sis. But later on, as environmental concerns for the unlimited use of natural resources started growing on, a new concept of blue economy emerged. The concept was ini­tially developed by Professor Gunter Pauli in 2010. However, the idea occupied the centre stage of mainstream economics only after it received high acclaim in the Rio⁺20 conference in 2012. The policymakers, thereafter, started promoting the concept of blue growth, especially in the island economies and in the countries that have significant coastlines and maritime areas.

The term ‘blue economy’ is defined differently by different organisations and authors. What can be drawn from these definitions is that the blue economy encom­passes all types of economic activities that directly or indirectly make sustainable use of coastal and marine resources. In fact, in introducing a new term, ‘blue econ­omy,’ in place of an old one, ‘ocean economy,’ the objective was to draw the atten­tion of the world to the fact that ocean resources are not used sustainably and the time has arrived when our utmost effort should be to ensure their sustainable use.