Blue transitions in the Global North vs. Global South: Governing marine renewables for a sustainable blue economy
Gallaher, A.; Axon, S. (2025). Blue transitions in the Global North vs. Global South: Governing marine renewables for a sustainable blue economy, in: Filho, W.L. et al. Handbook of sustainable blue economy. pp. 1-32. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32671-4_30-1
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| Keywords |
Sustainability
Marine/Coastal |
| Author keywords |
Blue transitions · Energy justice · Socio-technical transitions · Marine renewable energy |
| Abstract |
Historically, installation of energy infrastructures has often excluded communities and disproportionately affected populations via environmental stressors. Evaluating policies and regulations between the Global North and Global South can provide insights into the challenges of developing a blue economy from an environmental and socio-economic perspective. Multiscale government interactions (federal, state, local) through policy and regulation can at times create bottlenecks in sustainable development. Exploring these interactions can deepen understandings of how the blue economy is conceptualized and utilized as a resource for sustainable growth by promoting the responsible use, and conservation of, marine resources. Such an analysis highlights the commonalities and differences between how countries in the Global North and Global South govern and implement coastal sustainability transitions. In this regard, we perform a cross-comparative policy and regulatory analysis of marine renewable energy in the United States and Brazil. As emerging (United States) and established (Brazil) actors in marine renewable energy, each country maintains a position of learning and lending when transitioning their energy sectors to low-carbon sources of electricity. The findings from this analysis will provide policy recommendations to those working in marine policy and other shareholders who are confronted with the implications of the development of renewable energy in the coastal zone. |
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