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Pathways to a Sustainable Blue Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean

SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region

Abstract

After a 7-year slowdown in economic growth in the previous decade, LAC opened this decade with the adverse effects of Covid. The economic slowdown and the health crisis jeopardized the SDGs’ implementation in the region. In this chapter, the authors revisit the old question of whether the previous decade of LAC is another lost decade, mainly adding the environmental dimension to the economic and social dimension. In this line, the latest reports show that SDGs related to the biosphere capacity like SDGs 6 (water), 13 (greenhouse gases), 14 (blue biodiversity), and 15 (terrestrial ecosystems) have stalled. However, a higher diversity of pathways can be observed. To illustrate different trajectories, their trade-offs, and complementarities, the focus is on the transitions to the blue economy in a selection of small island developing states (SIDS) in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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This chapter was written, thanks to the financial funding from the Swedish Research Council, project “Sustainable Development of Small Island States” (VR 2019-04117).

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  1. Department of Economic History, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Andrés Palacio & Gianna Angermayr

  2. FIGRI, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

    Andrés Palacio

  3. Department of Economic History and CIRCLE – Centre for Innovation Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Cristina Chaminade

  4. Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Cristina Chaminade

  5. International Centre of Economic Policy for Sustainable Development, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica

    Cristina Chaminade

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Palacio, A., Chaminade, C., Angermayr, G. (2023). Pathways to a Sustainable Blue Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean. In: Leal Filho, W., Aguilar-Rivera, N., Borsari, B., R. B. de Brito, P., Andrade Guerra, B. (eds) SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region. Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91188-1_107-1

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