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OCEAN LITERACY FOR THE BLUE ECONOMY

Ronaldo Adriano Christofoletti
Caroline Schio

Raquel Costa

1. Introduction

Sustainable development is an essential in an integrated, synergistic and inseparable
concept for a better, peaceful, and prosper- way both temporally and spatially.
ous world for people and the environment. The ocean (SDG 14) was chosen to fos-
However, from concept to practice, we are ter action for the 2030 Agenda, and the
still failing. The United Nations (UN) defined UN declared the Decade of Ocean Science
the 2030 Agenda as an invitation for the for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)
whole world to work together to achieve (UNESCO-IOC, 2020). This Decade, pop-
17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ularly known as the Ocean Decade, high-
The SDGs require all sectors of society lights the need to generate and use knowl-
to work together with transdisciplinary ap- edge for decision-making for sustainability,
proaches to recognize, for example, that while highlighting the importance of the
ending poverty must be addressed togheter ocean and the coastal zone for this process
in conjunction with strategies to improve that integrates the 17 SDGs. The coastal
health, education, and reduce inequality, zone concentrates most of the world’s
while mitigating climate change and pre- population and, consequently, plays an
serving our ocean and forests. Sustainable important role in the world economy, the
development also recognizes that in order to so-called blue economy. In this chapter,
improve the quality of life, the development we will address how the concept of ocean
of a nation must occur from the integration literacy contributes to the strengthening
of economic, environmental, social, and cul- of the blue economy with science-based
tural dimensions, which must be worked on decision-making.

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