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- Title
A Blue Economy for Aotearoa New Zealand?
- Authors
Bargh, Maria
- Abstract
Vandana Shiva has argued that the world is experiencing the triple crises of climate change, peak oil and increasing global food insecurity (Shiva ). A Green Economy, which focuses on a 'low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive economy' (UNEP , 16), has been viewed in some quarters as a way to begin combating the triple crises. In Aotearoa New Zealand, some of the local indigenous peoples Maori are looking at green opportunities, primarily in renewable energy production. Some scholars suggest, however, that the Green Economy should be combined with a Blue Economy. The Blue Economy, as explained by Gunter Pauli , is one which focuses on nature and encourages companies and entrepreneurs to mimic nature in their processes and in the creation of their products. In this article, I suggest that considering a Blue Economy through the lens of a Maori worldview allows us to explore in another way the questions that the Blue Economy raises.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; CLIMATE change; SHIVA, Vandana, 1952-; HUBBERT peak theory; MAORI (New Zealand people); FOOD security
- Publication
Environment, Development & Sustainability, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 3, p459
- ISSN
1387-585X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10668-013-9487-4