A team of academic researchers from COST Action CA22122 – RethinkBlue held a study visit at the Department of Marine Sciences, Aegean University, Lesbos, Greece to develop their research on six port cities.
The team comprised of Alexandra Ćulibrk, Rania Tzoraki, Zacharoula Kyriazi, Senija Causevic, Tatiana Ruchinskaya, Polina Tourlioti, and Michael Briguglio, all from Working Group 3 “Port Cities and Coastal Communities” within RethinkBlue.
Their research project is entitled “Adaptive Capacity of Coastal Areas for a Sustainable Blue Economy: A Comparative Analysis of six European port cities from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Area”
This comparative analysis focuses on Porto, Cork, Venice, Valletta, Santorini, and Dubrovnik, and it reinforces the choice of adaptive and community-based resilience as the primary conceptual lens. Each case illustrates how resilience is not only a technical or ecological issue, but a socio-political process shaped by governance configurations, institutional capacity, power imbalances, and contested visions of sustainability.
The main aim and objective of the RethinkBlue EU COST Action CA22122 is to to assess the impact and the opportunities arising from the Blue Economy paradigm. This will create new insights on how to enhance the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the Blue Economy.
