Fostering Governance at Remote Marine Protected Areas in Times of Blue Economy: Baseline for Stakeholders Comeposition

Abstract

The Blue Economy is an emerging concept that encourages better stewardship of the ocean and associated resources. Turning it into a global issue poses several challenges to ocean conservation effectiveness especially at Remote Marine Protected Areas (ReMPA). How to implement and manage the ReMPAs is still new to modern society, and the participation criteria in the decision-making processes is undermost in a legitimate perspective. The proposed framework highlights the importance of emerging studies to untangle Oceans territorialization and use(r)s, in order to establish composition parameters for shared and realistic management. The initial application is exemplified by taking two Brazilian ReMPA. The preliminary results seek to support the priorities of Scientific innovative methodological appropriation in Ocean decision-making, as envisioning new baselines of legitimacy for ReMPAS governance. Thus, the two asymmetries found represent baseline challenges towards a framework to be considered as a starting point for ReMPA participative governance guidelines. These asymmetries pose emerging questions about how will these territories be governed since the stakeholder’s composition reflections to be considered in future scholars. The three highlights argue about the questions posted above and point preliminary conclusions.