Marine Industry and Environmental Sustainability under the Belt and Road Initiative

Dear Colleagues,

The marine industry is an industrial sector that aims to develop, utilize and protect marine resources and marine space. In the process of development, the marine industry faced the double constraints of resources and environment, such as relatively low value-added products, weak infrastructure investment, emergency technology requirements for marine resource exploring, high risk of the coastal environment, etc. However, the Belt and Road initiative not only creates a platform for economic cooperation in the world with the widest extension and largest scale but also provides a new opportunity and direction for promoting the sustainable development of the marine industry, aiming at building a “Sustainable Blue Partnership Cooperation Network”. Therefore, it is necessary to summarize the development experience of the marine industry and environmental sustainable development of the countries along the Belt and Road, and research the advantage mode of marine industry development, to achieve the goal of building “a community with a shared future of mankind” with “Sustainable Blue Partnership Cooperation Network”.

This special issue aims to explore the mode of cooperation of the marine industry in the countries along the Belt and Road, analyze the factors affecting the sustainable development of the marine industry and the environment, and promote the sustainable development of the coastal and ocean through the Belt and Road initiative.

Specific topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• Sustainable management and operation of marine industries;
• Technological tools for sustainable development of marine industries;
• Sustainable marine industry in the environment;
• Modes of the marine industry development;
• Coastal environment risks with marine industry development;
• Environmental sustainability of the marine industry;
• International cooperation for marine industry and environment management;
• Policy design for the sustainable marine industry and environment;
• Law and regulation for the sustainable marine industry and environment.

Dr. Jian Li
Dr. Bao Jiang
Dr. Wei Wang
Prof. Dr. Lili Ding
Guest Editors

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• one-belt-one-road (OBOR)
• sustainable marine development
• coastal environmental sustainability