Search results for "Blue Economy"
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Questions de durabilité économique
2016
L’absence d’une approche économique de type systémique, commune et participative, a produit une fragmentation des compétences dans de vastes zones du Sud de l’Italie, ainsi qu’un manque de flexibilité et de durabilité du développement spontané, incontrôlé et sans identité. De plus, cette condition – accompagnée par l’égoïsme et le personnalisme des entreprise et, trop souvent aussi des institutions – a entravé le développement des zones à forte vocation touristique. L’orientation stratégique du développement requiert de la part des habitants et, généralement, de toutes les parties prenantes du territoire (entreprises, commerçants, entreprises sociales, administrations publiques), une capaci…
Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy
2019
The global rush to develop the ‘blue economy’ risks harming both the marine environment and human wellbeing. Bold policies and actions are urgently needed. We identify five priorities to chart a course towards an environmentally sustainable and socially equitable blue economy.
Le preferenze dei consumatori verso i marchi e le etichette di qualità dei prodotti ittici
2022
Il consumo dei prodotti ittici è ormai sempre più analizzato per via delle implicazioni socio-economico-ambientali che da esso ne derivano. Se da un lato un maggiore consumo è sicuramente positivo in termini di salubrità, dall’altro mette in crisi il sistema ambiente per l’eccessivo sfruttamento degli stock ittici. Negli ultimi anni, vi è stata inoltre una progressiva crescita dell’attenzione del consumatore all’impatto ambientale dei processi produttivi con la conseguente maggiore presenza sul mercato di prodotti che utilizzando brand e label associati procedure certificate cercano di aggiungere alla qualità dei prodotti ittici percepita dai consumatori anche componenti che valorizzano pro…
Family SMEs and managerial approaches to sustainability in the blue economy
2023
Abstract This study investigates the managerial approaches family SMEs adopt to address sustainability in the context of the Blue Economy. Using a qualitative methodology, we conduct nine case studies of family firms operating in Sicily's COSVAP Fishing District area. The data are collected via semi-structured interviews with the founders/managers and analyzed using the Gioia method. The results reveal that family SMEs approach sustainability by adopting three managerial approaches. In the first approach, SME managers conceive sustainability as a threat to the economic sustainability of their firms. The second approach implies that sustainability must undergo specific compromises. The third…
Formulation of a new sustainable feed from food industry discards for rearing the purple sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus
2020
The lack of suitable feeds for echinoculture has led to use natural resources already widely exploited by human activities. To move towards a higher sustainability of echinoculture, this study proposes a sustainable feed for Paracentrotus lividus. Two experimental formulations were obtained using discarded endive (Cichorium endivia) leaves and anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) industry discards in different proportions, and agar as a binder. The evaluation of the feed stability showed that the feed was stable for 72 hr, allowing a suitable feeding for sea urchins. Both formulations showed a proper nutritional value and fatty acid profile, corresponding to the features of the main ingredients…
A new sustainable formulated feed based on discards from food industries for rearing the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus (Lmk)
2019
During a 18‐week experiment in a sea‐based system, Paracentrotus lividus was fed with two formulations of a new sustainable feed whose main ingredients were food farming discards, mostly outermost lettuce leaves, in different percentage. Egg white was added as protein source and binder, and a little amount of commercial fish feed was added as lipid source. At the end of the experiment, a high survival rate (>80%) and an increase in test diameter (22%), total weight (130%), gonad weight (240%) and gonad index expressed as size‐adjusted gonad weight (288%) were recorded. Gonads achieved a good colour and high levels of essential and polyunsaturated fatty acids, hence representing a commerc…
SmartWave: A Smart Platform for Marine Environmental Monitoring
2021
In recent years, the interest in the study of seas and oceans has dramatically increased as they are considered of primary importance for forecasting catastrophic events or for supporting blue economy, as well as the marine tourism, improving the tourist reception or enhancing any marine-related activity. This led to the development of IT platforms that allow to monitor the marine environment and provide a number of services to different kinds of final users, whether they are private individuals interested in the status of the seas, or companies whose business depends on the marine environmental monitoring. The main limitations of current platforms are due to such a difference between free …
Le questioni della sostenibilità economica
2016
La mancanza di un approccio economico di tipo sistemico, condiviso e partecipativo ha prodotto nell’economia di vaste aree del Mezzogiorno d’Italia una frammentazione di competenze, una scarsa flessibilità e un’insostenibilità dello sviluppo spontaneo, incontrollato e senza identità. Ancor di più questa condizione – accompagnata dagli egoismi e dai personalismi dei soggetti imprenditoriali, ma troppo spesso anche da quelli istituzionali – ha pesato sullo sviluppo delle aree a forte vocazione turistica. L’orientamento strategico dello sviluppo richiede alle comunità residenti, e più in generale a tutti gli stakeholder del territorio (imprese, commercio, imprese sociali, Pubblica Amministrazi…