BLUE ECONOMY

OPRI conducts policy research on a sustainable blue economy and identifies enabling factors such as policies, innovative initiatives, and collective actions, while building upon local and regional characteristics. OPRI promotes multi-stakeholder policy dialogues to achieve the blue economy through interdisciplinary and inclusive approaches with various partners in Japan, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and around the world. Interdisciplinary research to promote the blue economy through the conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal resources (in fi sheries, aquaculture, tourism, marine renewable energy, etc.).