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Securing Blue Wealth: The Need For A Special Sustainable Development Goal For The Ocean And Coasts And For Future Ocean Spatial Planning, Martin Visbeck, Ulrike Kronfeld-Goharani, Barbara Neumann, Wilfried Rickels, Jorn Schmidt, Erik Van Doorn, Nele Matz-Luck, Konrad Ott, Martin F. Quaas
Securing Blue Wealth: The Need For A Special Sustainable Development Goal For The Ocean And Coasts And For Future Ocean Spatial Planning, Martin Visbeck, Ulrike Kronfeld-Goharani, Barbara Neumann, Wilfried Rickels, Jorn Schmidt, Erik Van Doorn, Nele Matz-Luck, Konrad Ott, Martin F. Quaas
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The ocean regulates the global climate, provides humans with natural resources such as food, materials, important substances, and energy, and is essential for international trade and recreational and cultural activities. Together with human development and economic growth, free access to, and availability of, ocean resources and services have exerted strong pressure on marine systems, ranging from overfishing, increasing resource extraction, and alteration of coastal zones to various types of thoughtless pollution. Both economic theory and many case studies suggest that there is no “tragedy of the commons” but a “tragedy of open access”. With high likeliness, structures of open access …