Short communicationFrom Blue Economy to Blue Communities: reorienting aquaculture expansion for community wellbeing
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Reframing aquaculture expansion to enhance community wellbeing
Enthusiasm for marine aquaculture expansion is currently high. We argue that prioritizing community wellbeing – and more generally Blue Communities – may help guide expansion in ways that avoid the shortfalls described above. A wellbeing frame recognizes that “what is important to people, communities and society” [31] (p. 257) varies. Thus, central to Blue Communities is a governance approach that considers the multidimensionality and place specificity of wellbeing from the outset and embeds it
CRediT authorship contribution statement
Lisa Campbell, Luke Fairbanks, Grant Murray, Joshua Stoll, Linda D’Anna, and Julia Bingham collaborated in conceptualizing, organizing, and supporting the argument for Blue Communities. Lisa Campbell and Luke Fairbanks led in writing the manuscript, and Grant Murray, Joshua Stoll, Linda D’Anna, and Julia Bingham provided comments on each version of the manuscript. Joshua Stoll created Fig. 1.
Acknowledgments
Our conceptualization of Blue Communities arises from our North Carolina Sea grant funded research project (NCSU NOAA grant no.NA18OAR4170069, PI Grant Murray) 'The value of fishing, farming and eating: new approaches to understanding coastal community well-being in a changing world'. Joshua Stoll was partially supported by the Broad Reach Fund. We are grateful to the Oyster House for hosting our project retreat where these ideas were originally developed.
Author contributions
Lisa Campbell, Luke Fairbanks, Grant
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