- Donnersgatan 6
- June 30, 2023
- Friday, 8:00AM to 8:45AM
- Havsplattformen mot fattigdom, genom Havs- och vattenmyndigheten, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, Naturskyddsföreningen, Stockholm Environment Institute
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The ocean economy, an utopia? How does aid affect the sea and people?
Visby
Friday, 8:00AM to 8:45AM
June 30, 2023
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Havsplattformen mot fattigdom, genom Havs- och vattenmyndigheten, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, Naturskyddsföreningen, Stockholm Environment Institute
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Visby
Friday, 8:00AM to 8:45AM
June 30, 2023
Senior Research Fellow Karina Barquet will discuss the ocean’s economy, the effects of swedish aid and the knowledge needed in the area at the Swedish democracy week.
The Swedish political week held in Visby, Gotland, (Almedalsveckan) is a democracy week centred around the most important issues in Swedish politics. Mistra Geopolitics researcher in the Sustainable Oceans theme, Karina Barquet, will contribute with her expertise in the session The ocean economy, a utopia? How does aid affect the sea and people? (Havets ekonomi, en utopi? Hur påverkar biståndet havet och människor?)
In recent times, concepts such as blue economy, green economy and ocean economy have been circulating in the global development institutions. Capital is flowing into new industries and the ocean is supposed to boost growth in the West and fight poverty in the South. At the same time, the world’s oceans and fish stocks are in worse shape than ever. For people on the coasts of the South, this is a matter of survival.
As competition for the sea increases and more needs to be protected, their space for livelihoods is shrinking. ‘Ocean grabbing’ on the one hand, global agreement on protection on the other. Can we protect the ocean while using it for food and economic purposes? Who wins – coastal people, governments, businesses, the environment? Or all of them? What role does Swedish aid play in the fair and sustainable development of coasts and seas, and what are its effects? Does it promote Swedish interests? What do we know and what knowledge do we need?
In the discussion, speakers will deepen our understanding of the economy of the sea, the effects of aid and the knowledge that is needed with concrete examples from cooperation and aid efforts.
Karina Barquet, Senior Research Fellow within Mistra Geopolitics Ocean research theme, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Johanna Egerup, Business Developer, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management.
Jakob Granit, Director General, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
Catarina Hedar, Unit Manager International Development, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
Karin Lexén, Secretary General, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SNF)
Jens Olsson, Researcher, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Carin Jämtin,General Director, Sida
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