Integrated Ocean Management (IOM) for Marine Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)14: A Case Study of China’s Bohai Sea

Yongjie Xue, Jinling Yan (), Dahai Li and Haijing Zheng
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Yongjie Xue: School of Economics, Shandong Women’s University, Ji’nan 250300, China
Jinling Yan: College of Economics and Management, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding 071000, China
Dahai Li: Marine Development Studies Institute, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
Haijing Zheng: Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0808, Japan

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 7, 1-24

Abstract: Marine development and eco-environmental management have received increasing attention over the past two decades, however, no effective universal approach has been established to achieve marine development without destroying marine ecosystems. This study discusses the integrated ocean management (IOM) for meeting the sustainable development goal (SDG14) through the following four aspects: the marine eco-environment foundation, market mechanism, management support, and space consideration. Our findings highlight how to enhance the coastal and marine areas management efficiency to achieve ecological and socioeconomic values for sustainable development through the benign interaction of marine ecosystem and socioeconomic systems. The presented case study examines the IOM framework for achieving SDG14 in the Bohai Sea. Furthermore, content analysis and semi-structured interviews were conducted. The framework is theoretically and empirically explored in light of the Bohai Sea’s management, focusing on the role of the government and incentive. Further, issues preventing effective IOM are highlighted and a framework for optimizing the IOM implementation to better balance the interests of various industries is suggested. When implementing the IOM framework, each region should fully play to its own advantages and push forward with some focused aspects first. The long-term effect of the Bohai Sea’s management may need time to be verified, and the role of the market mechanism and multi-interest coordination mechanism need more special attention for the Bohai Sea in the future.

Keywords: integrated ocean management; marine ecosystem services; sustainable development; ocean economics; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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