Blue Economy

Dr. Somnath Hazra is a trained ecological economist, with expertise in climate change economics, forest economics, sustainable development, ecosystem services, environmental valuation and policy analysis. He has vast research experience in different Indian research centres as well as teaching experiences at UG and PG level in different universities in West Bengal. He has experience in managing and executing development programmes in various capacities for government, international development organizations and the private sector. He has visited different countries all over the world for performing different project assignments and also for the presentation of research articles on climate change and environmental and development economics. He has more than 50 research articles and six edited volumes related to environmental economics and sustainable development to his credit.  Dr. Anindya Bhukta, an Associate Professor of Economics in a college in rural West Bengal, is well known for his scholarly articles on Economics and Environment and also for a few outstanding text books in Economics. He has so far written more than 300 hundreds articles on these two subjects. He has authored nearly 70 books in Bengali and English, among which the most remarkable are his two dictionaries in Bengali, one on Economics and the other on Environment. One of his Bengali books on the ‘History of Indian Planning’ has been highly acclaimed by the readers. He is also very popular to the readers in Bengal for his creative writings. The main essence of his writings is lucidity of language, easy presentation with an in-depth analysis of the subject matter. Presently he is editing an online internationally peer-reviewed journal ‘Economy Polity Environment’.

• Chapter 1: Blue Economy: An overview.- Chapter 2: Advancement of Science and Technology: Future prospect of Blue Economy.- Chapter 3: Marine Ecosystem Services: Viewing from a Sustainable Management Approach.- Chapter 4: Commerce and trade of marine-based industries in a blue economy.- Chapter 5: Role and Prospect of Marine biotechnology in a blue economy.- Chapter 6: Powering the Blue Economy: An Assessment of Marine Renewable Energies.- Chapter 7: Operationalizing of Ocean wealth : Contribution of Fisheries, Edible and Non-edible seafood and aquaculture.- Chapter 8: Desalinisation of ocean water: How far does it contribute to the blue economy.- Chapter 9: Ocean as a repository for waste: An Assessment.- Chapter 10: Role of Blue Carbon in the protection and restoration of marine ecosystems.- Chapter 11: Conservation and Protection of Marine Biodiversity: Assessing the role of blue economy.- Chapter 12: Multifacet role of mangrovesin the blue economy and its assessment.- Chapter 13:Tourism and recreation: Valuing its role in the blue economy.- Chapter 14: Monitoring the Health of Blue Ecosystems.- Chapter 15: Climate Change and induced impact on Blue Economy.- Chapter 16: Coastal Urbanisation: Challenges towards a sustainable blue economy.- Chapter 17: Present Status of ocean and International maritime regulations.- Chapter 18: Issues in designing future marine policy in regard to oceans governance and integrated Ocean management.