Challenging the new blue deal by embedding interactions with the non-humans in the offshore renewable energy development

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Abstract

This paper is challenging the new blue deal outlining the need for a change in the expectative. Offshore wind farms (OWFs) are not only a climate-friendly way of producing electricity but also a shifting paradigm unique opportunity, acknowledging the increasing presence of anthropogenic infrastructure in the marine environment and seeing them as the place for recreating relations with non-humans and work with them. We give some ideas that could ground a research program pairing both positive and negative aspects of OWF and study the conditions of realization of mutual beneficial relationship coming from the “mosaic of open-ended assemblages of entangled ways of life.”.

Original languageEnglish
Article number952593
JournalFrontiers in Marine Science
Volume9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Jan 2023
Externally publishedYes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
  2. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water

Keywords

  • assemblages
  • entangled mesh
  • hybridity
  • interconnectedness
  • MPA (marine protected area)
  • OWF
  • reef effect
  • world-making

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