Green Recovery Strategies

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Towards a green and inclusive post-pandemic recovery of the Blue Economy and coastal communities (RRR-Coast).

$2M Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) grant (2022-2025)

Coastal communities have experienced significant economic losses during the pandemic (e.g., due to a decline in tourism and contractions in other industries), but impacts, consequences on equity, and the potential for recovery are so far under-studied. At this time, governments need to determine how recovery can be socially inclusive, sustainable, and resilient, but face a lack of reliable data.

Our project aims at filling this knowledge gap by studying the following aspect in Costa Rica, Germany, Scotland and the USA:

(1) the socio-economic impacts brought by both COVID-19 and the implemented response measures such as movement restrictions,

(2) the preferred short-term and long-term COVID-19 recovery strategies for each sector of the Blue Economy,

(3) the main barriers to coastal green and inclusive recovery policies and programs,

(4) elements of resilience in the recovery strategies that could successfully contribute to a sustainable and inclusive development, benchmarked against the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Change Agreement, and

(5) lessons and best practices transferable across risks and locations to efficiently respond to/prevent future crises.

FUNDING AGENCIES

PUBLICATIONS

PUBLISHED:

Lisa Hartmann, Yvonne Waltz, David Clelland, Catalina Esquivel Rodriguez, Marta Vicarelli, Fabrice Renaud (2025) “A conceptual framework for a post-COVID-19 green recovery of the Blue Economy” Marine Policy, Volume 171, 2025, 106446, ISSN 0308-597X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106446

Vicarelli Marta, David Clelland, Paisley Gavin*, Lisa Hartmann, Fabrice Renaud, Catalina Esquivel Rodríguez, Yvonne Walz, Julian Zadow*, Josepha Nestele*, Mary Nthambi, Divina Rodriguez*. 2024. “A green and inclusive post-pandemic recovery of the Blue Economy and coastal communities” University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica), University of Glasgow (UK), United Nations University (Bonn, Germany), University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA, USA).

UNDER REVIEW:

David Clelland, Lisa Hartmann, Fabrice Renaud, Catalina Esquivel Rodriguez, Marta Vicarelli, Yvonne Waltz (2025) “Do post-pandemic policies support the Green Recovery in the Blue Economy? Evidence from Scotland, Germany and Massachusetts (USA)” (equal co-authorship, co-authors in alphabetical order after first/corresponding author)

IN PREPARATION: