Low carbon green growth paradigm for fisheries sector
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Title
- Low carbon green growth paradigm for fisheries sector
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Author(s)
- Park, S.K.; Kwon, S.-J.
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Alternative Author(s)
- 권석재
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Publication Year
- 2009
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Abstract
- Two of the most important topics of the 21st century are ensuring harmony between man and his environment and the emerging long-tail economy in which niche markets are becoming increasingly more important. Since the Industrial Revolution in 17th century, human beings have increasingly exploited the world's natural capital, such as the natural environment and its ecosystems. Now the world is facing limits to sustainable economic growth because of limits to this natural capital. Thus, most countries are beginning to adopt a new development paradigm, the so-called Green Development Paradigm which pursues environmental conservation in parallel with economic growth. Recently, the Korean government announced an ambitious national policy of Low Carbon & Green Growth for the next six decades. This is an important step that transforms the existing national policy into a new future-oriented one. The fisheries sector in particular has great potential for making a substantial contribution to this national policy initiative. For example, the ocean itself with its sea plants and phytoplankton has an enonnous, capacity for fixing carbon, and its vast areas of tidal flats have a tremendous potential for cleaning up pollutants, from both the sea and the land. Furthermore, the fishing industry has great potential for the development of fuel-saving biodegradable technologies, and a long-tail economy based on digital technologies can do much to promote the production and consumption of green goods and services derived from the oceans and the fisheries. In order for this potential to be realized, the fisheries authority needs to develop a new green-growth strategy that is practical and widely supported by fishing communities and the markets, taking into account the need for greenhouse gas reduction, conservation of the ocean environment and ecosystems, an improved system for seafood safety, the establishment of strengthened MCS (monitoring-control-surveillance) system, and the development of coastal ecotourism. In addition, fisheries green policies need to be implemented through a well-organized system of government aids, regulations and compensation, and spontaneous (voluntary) orders in fishing communities should be promoted to encourage far more responsible fisheries.
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ISSN
- 1598-141X
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URI
- https://sciwatch.kiost.ac.kr/handle/2020.kiost/4384
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DOI
- 10.4217/OPR.2009.31.1.097
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Bibliographic Citation
- Ocean and Polar Research, v.31, no.1, pp.97 - 110, 2009
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Publisher
- Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute
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Subject
- economic growth; environmental economics; fishing industry; nature conservation; paradigm shift; policy implementation; strategic approach; sustainable development; trade-environment relations; Asia; Eurasia; Far East; Korea
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Keywords
- EBFM; Green growth; Harmony; Long tail economy; Natural capital
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Type
- Article
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Language
- Korean
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Document Type
- Article
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