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OCEAN GOVERNANCE AS A COMMUNICATION

VECTOR: TRANSPORT AND DATA

Marcelo José das Neves
Rogério de Oliveira Gonçalves

1. Introduction

The topic of ocean governance has 2019 has been systematically conduct-
challenged researchers over time, but eco- ing research on this important topic. In his
nomic studies focused on the Sea and the speech, Charles Colgan, when asked about
Blue Economy are an unequivocal demon- the relevance of measuring the components
stration of the weight that human activities of the Blue Economy, replied that:
developed in the marine environment have
on economic life, with increasingly neces- The US government began research-
sary social and environmental impacts to be ing the role of the ocean in the national
planned, quantified, and evaluated. economy in 1974. Periodic research pa-
Charles S. Colgan, Research Director pers covered the topic until the begin-
of the Blue Economy Center at the Mid- ning of the National Ocean Economics
dlebury Institute of International Studies, Program (NOEP) in 2001, with the ob-
Monterey, USA is a reference on the sub- jective of creating a temporally and
ject. With over 14 years of experience in spatially consistent measurement of the
the field, he was recently interviewed by ocean economy for the US. This data
Grupo Economia do Mar (GEM - Sea Econ- became available in prototype format

omy Group), an academic initiative by Prof. in 2001 and became an official Feder-
Dr. Thauan Santos, Adjunct Professor of al Government publication in 2007 as
the Graduate Program in Maritime Stud- the Economics National Ocean Watch
ies at the Escola de Guerra Naval (PPGEM/ (ENOW) data series. Since then, it has
EGN - Naval War College) and who since been updated regularly. Data in this

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