{"id":29,"category_id":5,"image":null,"title":"Ocean Governance for Sustainable Maritime Development in the Bay of Bengal","slug":"ocean-governance-for-sustainable-maritime-development-in-the-bay-of-bengal-1","author":"Rear Admiral M Khaled Iqbal","publisher":null,"description":"

Abstract <\/strong>
\r\nThe human civilisation is indebted to the oceans for serving mankind as a major source of food, minerals and energy linking economies around the world. The oceans serve as an engine for global economic growth and highways for seaborne international trade giving access to global markets. But there has been a growing appreciation that the world’s oceans require more caring attention and integrated response. There is a progressive degradation of ocean health caused by IUU fishing, marine pollution and unplanned coastal development. However, in recent years, few developing countries have looked to the ocean as a new economic frontier and developed growth policies based on the concept of the Blue Economy. It is aimed at enhancing livelihoods for the poor, creating employment opportunities and reducing poverty.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

A Blue Economy roadmap is essential to provide an integrated approach to ocean-based sustainable development, which brings together economy, environment and society being closely linked with the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (SDGs). Making the transition to a Blue Economy would entail fundamental and systemic changes in the policyregulatory-management-governance framework using the tools of an ecosystem-based Marine Spatial Planning (MSP).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Today the littoral countries of the Bay of Bengal are showing huge trends of economic development due to their increasing importance on the ocean-based economy. But our development patterns are often undermined and diminished due to lack of appropriate ocean governance measures whereas various policies are either poorly implemented or lacks supervision. So, a regionally integrated management and governance system is the demand of the day in order to ensure sustainable maritime development in the Bay of Bengal region.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

In this context, the paper endeavours to analyse how the Bay of Bengal region is responding to the challenges of ocean governance and harvest Blue Economy benefits from the ocean. In fact, the challenges are many, but a properly planned Blue Economy and Ocean Policy can bring to the developing countries of this region substantial benefits of economic and social development in the years ahead.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Keywords: <\/strong>Ocean Governance, Marine Spatial Planning, Blue Economy<\/p>\r\n<\/gdiv>","file":"\/files\/econtents\/5f8065115fd17vol4_issue1_article_1_khaled_iqbal.pdf","downloaded":24,"created_at":"10\/10\/2020 12:25 AM","updated_at":"17\/3\/2021 3:51 AM"}