I am an expert in marine sustainability. The "blue economy" is the new buzzword in ocean management, and I think we urgently need to apply the principles of doughnut economics to the way in which we interact with the ocean.
Human survival depends on the ocean, but we don't live there - we only ever visit. This makes our relationship with the ocean (3/4 of our planet!) very different from our relationship with the land. I see a lot of doughnut initiatives centred on cities and communities, but in the ocean we have no equivalent to municipalities with resident human populations (in fact, much of the ocean is beyond national jurisdiction). And yet, we visit, use, and impact on the ocean in many different ways.
I love the existing green doughnut and all the tools that scale it down to particular localities, but where is the equivalent blue doughnut? The images, stories, tools and methods that help us apply the doughnut principles to the context of the blue economy?
