Blue justice: A review of emerging scholarship and resistance movements

JL Blythe, DA Gill, J Claudet, NJ Bennett… - Cambridge Prisms …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The term “blue justice” was coined in 2018 during the 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries
Congress. Since then, academic engagement with the concept has grown rapidly. This …

Prospects of forward osmosis-based membranes for seawater mining: Economic analysis, limitations and opportunities

ST Abdul-Hussein, MH Al-Furaiji, H Meskher… - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Processes for separating solutes from water, including desalination, are based on synthetic
membranes using the forward osmosis (FO) technique. The industrial-level success of these …

Agreements and benefits in emerging ocean sectors: Are we moving towards an equitable Blue Economy?

AM Cisneros-Montemayor, AK Ducros… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Transitioning to a Blue Economy that prioritizes social equity will be challenging in
ocean sectors but could be comparatively easier for newer industries where appropriate …

[PDF][PDF] Dependency, techno-optimism and climate adaptation

BF O'Neill, AL Boyer - Water Alternatives, 2023 - water-alternatives.org
Desalination (producing potable water from saline sources) has gained notoriety globally as
climate change threatens water supplies. Strikingly, Arizona–a territory lacking coastal …

Blue economy, blue growth, social equity and small-scale fisheries: a global and national level review

J Das - Studies in Social Science Research, 2023 - cris.leibniz-zmt.de
One of the most promising economic arenas in the coming decades is the ocean and there
are currently numerous initiatives to the 'blue economy'discourse that revolves around the …

Social perspectives on the sustainability challenges within the desalination sector: a Q-method study

C Figueroa, C Brannstrom, L Seghezzo… - … Science, Practice and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Desalination offers options to augment water supplies for growing urban and industrial
demand. Yet these facilities and related infrastructure projects have significant impacts on …

Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions

BF O'Neill, J Williams - Global Environmental Change, 2024 - Elsevier
The piece outlines the contributions of key works in the field of the political ecology of
desalination over the past decade. We note that the field is diverse in terms of contributions …

A governability lesson for the Blue Economy: the collapse of mobile salmon aquaculture in the Norwegian coastal zone

D Jensen, SA Sønvisen, JP Johnsen - Maritime Studies, 2025 - Springer
Inspired by governability and evolutionary governance theory, this paper studies innovative
aquaculture technologies that aim to contribute to the transition toward a sustainable blue …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding Social Aspects on Desalination for Community Adaptation and Resilience in Baja California, México

M Villada-Canela - Social Sciences, 2025 - mdpi.com
This article examines the social aspects of seawater desalination, especially as a strategy
for community adaptation and resilience to water scarcity in arid and coastal regions …

[PDF][PDF] Managing Mining: New Environmental Contracts In Light Of Loss, Inequality, and Climate Change

K Lessmeier - … , Resilience, and Participation in Chile's 2022 …, 2025 - library.oapen.org
Mining, particularly for copper, has long been considered 'Chile's national salary.'Similarly,
hopes for national wealth have long coexisted in tension with the environmental harms that …