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Like many other countries, France and Japan now have their own ocean policy, though at different stage of development and in quite different context. On the European side, buzz words like ‘Blue Growth’, ‘Maritime Spatial Planning’, and others, are on the forefront and could make us feel that ocean policies are primarily focused beyond the coast, in offshore waters and their corresponding human activities, somewhat leaving coastal communities in the back seat. Through case studies, we will try to show that ocean policies should be coast-to-coast, across oceans, regional seas, or local well delineated water body, never forgetting that, beyond ‘Blue growth’, we should be heading towards a ‘Blue society’.
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The French think tank IDDRI (International Relations and Sustainable Development Institute) could sustain the comparison though it is devoted to all topics related to sustainable development including ocean.
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Want China Times. Editorial of 28 March 2011.
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Henocque, Y. (2019). Do Our Ocean Policies Make Any Difference in the Wellbeing of Coastal Communities?. In: Komatsu, T., Ceccaldi, HJ., Yoshida, J., Prouzet, P., Henocque, Y. (eds) Oceanography Challenges to Future Earth. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00138-4_26
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