Article: Blue Growth: Conceptualizing Sustainable Development of Marine Environments

by GreenMAR Scientific Coordinator Anna Mazzarella

On Sunday the 19th of February, Nordforsk-funded project GreenMAR had a Symposium at the AAAS meeting in Boston, MA. The AAAS meeting is arranged by the journal Science, and is a highly influential and high profile scientific meeting where thousands of scientists as well as policymakers, educators and journalists come together to discuss the most recent scientific findings. The theme of the 2017 meeting was “Serving Society through Science Policy,” which means focusing on how policies can come to reflect the best available scientific knowledge. This topic is near and dear to our hearts in GreenMAR, as our project is about the fundamental challenge of green (/blue) growth, and how to use our renewable natural resources more efficiently while ensuring that the ecosystems retain their functionality. As such we applied to have a Symposium at the AAAS meeting which we called “Blue Growth: Conceptualizing Sustainable Development of Marine Environments.”
The Press Conference for the GreenMAR Symposium at the AAAS meeting ©2017 Anna Mazzarella
Scott Barrett speaking at the GreenMAR Symposium ©2017 Atlantic Photography
GreenMAR co-Chair Nils Chr. Stenseth attending our AAAS Symposium ©2017 Anna Mazzarella

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Published Mar. 22, 2017 1:31 PM