Enjoy The Ocean Economy In Mauritius: Making It Happen, Making It Last Narrated By Raffaello Cervigni Visible In Textbook

book assesses the overall potential of the Ocean Economy OE to contribute to Mauritius' development, identifies key sectoral and crosscutting challenges to be overcome in order to seize that potential, and evaluates ways to ensure the OE's longerterm sustainability.
In particular, tt addresses environmental and climate change concerns, Based on a computable general equilibrium CGE model analysis of the country developed in partnership with the Government of Mauritius, the book finds that doubling the GDP share of the OE the 'O' strategy is possible, even though achieving such a target is likely to take to at leastyears.
Over the nextyears, with investments on the order of USmillion per year, the Ostrategy can yield many positive results in terms of sustainable and inclusive growth, The book assesses opportunities and constraints for OE development from the individual perspective of four sectors, representing the OE's established sectors fisheries, ports, as well as the emerging ones marine energy and marine information and communications technology.
Sustainable development requires considerable investment in natural resource management, since any OE expansion is likely to entail larger pressure on the environment, including pollution of water and coastlines and higher exposure to the risks posed by current climate variability and future change.
In this respect, Mauritius has recently initiated a Marine Spatial Planning process as a key instrument to reconcile multiple ecological, economic, and social objectives in the use of coastal and ocean resources.
Climate change is being increasingly recognized as a threat to the development potential of the OE in Mauritius, The country has made important progress on the understanding of impacts

it has also made progress on practical adaptation responses, The current OE governance system, based on a dedicated ministry and a consultative body the National Ocean Council, has been instrumental in promoting the OE agenda over the last few years.
To fully turn the OE's potential into reality, there is a need to strengthen it, both in terms of technical capacity and in terms of decisionmaking mechanisms, .