%0 Journal Article 
%A Ros, Nathalie
%T What is Blue Colonialism?
%D 2024
%@ 2341-0868
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35985
%X What is blue colonialism? As a concept, it is an avatar of the privatization of the
seas, emblematic of the post-new Law of the Sea; it’s a phenomenon justified in the name of the
blue economy, insofar as the context of the Anthropocene implies the economicization of the sea,
and facilitated by the functional spatialization of maritime areas, through the development of
marine spatial planning and marine protected areas. But, in practice, blue colonialism appears a
geopolitically differentiated strategy, initially developed in the Indo-Pacific, in the maritime areas
under national jurisdiction of Small Island Developing States, as a model to be replicated, according
to a logic of compensation and in order to secure access to the mineral resources needed for the
ecological transition; implemented, via the private environmental governance of NGOs and trusts,
and the associated financialization of conservation, in the form of a renunciation of sovereignty
in favor of a transnational dynamic, blue colonialism is a new legal paradigm at the service of the
dominant economic model, but also a blue injustice intending to transfer the burden of the sacrifices
onto those who are not responsible for the triple planetary crisis, to continue the growth process.

%K blue colonialism
%K blue economy
%K blue injustice
%K ecological transition
%K environmental NGO
%K functional spatialization
%K marine protected area
%K marine spatial planning
%K privatization of the seas
%K post-new Law of the Sea
%K Small Island Developing State
%K trust fund
%K área marina protegida
%K colonialismo azul
%K derecho del mar post-nuevo
%K economía azul
%K espacialización funcional
%K injusticia azul
%K ONG medioambiental
%K pequeño Estado insular en desarrollo
%K planificación espacial marina
%K privatización de los mares
%K transición ecológica
%K trust fund
%~ Universidad de Cádiz