The Blue Economy and Its Geographies (original) (raw)

This chapter examines the economic geographies of the Blue Economy in Turkey, which is on the agenda of international organisations aiming to develop the existing economies and support the environmentally friendly green economy further. For this purpose, the study reveals the sectors related to the Blue Economy, the place of these sectors in Turkey's economy, and their spatial distribution among regions for the first time by using the blue growth framework of the European Commission from the perspective of economic geography. The findings of the study show that the Blue Economy has a significant potential in Turkey's national and regional development. While the Blue Economy in Turkey is close to the EU level in terms of size and development, coastal tourism dominates the Blue Economy as in other countries. We also found that the Blue Economy has spatially concentrated almost entirely along the coast and in the country's five major cities (Istanbul, Antalya, Muğla, Izmir, and Ankara), which further reinforces the current geographically uneven development process.

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