Blue Opportunities from the future: knowledge and tools to inform sustainable growth for an integrated terrestrial, coastal and marine zone economy.

“未来的蓝色机遇”是东安格利亚大学、新安格利亚地方企业伙伴关系、诺福克和萨福克海岸委员会、环境署、奥比斯能源公司和皇家鸟类保护协会共同设计的一个合作项目。该项目旨在更好地利用NERC资助的沿海和海洋环境研究，以推动创新和前瞻性思维，实现未来的可持续管理和经济增长。东安格利亚已经通过其研究机构、前瞻性的地方当局、活跃的野生动物保护组织和新安格利亚地方企业伙伴关系的绿色经济探路者倡议，在这一领域取得了进展。该项目提供了一个及时的机会，通过采取更面向海洋的观点来扩大区域的良好做法。在东安格利亚地区，参与海岸和海洋部门规划的机构越来越有兴趣对我们环境的长期未来采取更加综合和以机会为中心的看法。这是由于认识到不可避免的持续沿海变化和未来重大变化的潜力，例如由于全球变暖和海平面上升。有必要以创造性、适应性和包容性的方式思考，并将未来的变化视为“做得更好”的机会。通过连接沿海和近海区域，并从一套定制的100年未来情景中工作，该项目采用了一种新颖而积极的方法，以综合的方式思考沿海和海洋环境的未来。我们将对2015年进行创新的未来分析，以探索东安格利亚“蓝色”经济跨越陆地和海洋的潜在未来机会。我们将共同创建一个方法和相关知识库的“蓝色未来工具包”，项目合作伙伴可以利用该工具包为该地区开发蓝色探路者，以帮助推动可持续的蓝色经济增长。这将提供一种范例方法，将传播给英国、欧盟和全世界其他地区的最终用户。该项目将从生态系统服务评估（自然资本）到海洋生物地球化学等方面，借鉴NERC资助的广泛投资组合以及东英吉利大学、Cefas、伙伴组织等的相关工作。东英吉利大学在研究复杂环境的长期可持续未来以及环境变化对经济和社会的影响方面拥有丰富的经验，能够为可持续发展的未来机会提供新颖的创造性思维。在项目中整合我们的合作伙伴团队，确保我们的工作目标恰当且有益，从而最大限度地提高英国及其他地方和国家机构可持续管理发展的效用。

Blue Opportunities from the Future is a collaborative project co-designed between the University of East Anglia, the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership, Norfolk and Suffolk Coastal Councils, the Environment Agency, Orbis Energy and the RSPB. The project is driven by a desire to make better use of NERC funded research in coastal and marine environments to drive innovation and forward thinking in the delivery of future sustainable management and economic growth. East Anglia is already a centre for delivering advances in this area through its research organisations, forward-thinking local authorities, active wildlife conservation organisations and the Green Economy Pathfinder initiative of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership. This project provides a timely opportunity to broaden regional good practice by taking a more marine-facing view. In the East Anglian region there is growing interest among the institutions involved in planning for the coast and marine sectors in taking a more integrated and opportunity-focused look at the long-term future of our environment. This is driven by a recognition of inevitable on-going coastal change and the potential for significant future changes, for example due to global warming and rising sea level. There is a need to think creatively, adaptively and in an inclusive manner, and to consider future change as an opportunity to 'do better'. By connecting the coastal and offshore zones, and working from a bespoke set of 100 year futures scenarios, this project takes a novel and positive approach to thinking about the future of coastal and marine environments in an integrated way. We will undertake an innovative futures analysis to 2115 to explore the potential future opportunities, spanning land and sea, for East Anglia's 'Blue' economy. We will co-create a 'Blue Futures toolkit' of methods and associated knowledge base with which project partners can go on to develop a Blue pathfinder for the region to help drive sustainable blue economic growth. This will provide an exemplar approach that will be disseminated to end-users in other regions in the UK, EU and worldwide. The project will draw upon many aspects of the extensive portfolio of NERC funded and related work at UEA, Cefas, partner organisations and beyond, from ecosystem service valuations (natural capital), to marine biogeochemistry. UEA is well placed to deliver novel creative thinking on future opportunities for sustainable growth, with extensive experience of research into the long-term sustainable futures of complex environments and the impacts of environmental change on economies and society. Integration of our partner groups within the project ensures our work is targeted appropriately and beneficially to maximise utility for the development of sustainable management by local and national bodies throughout the UK and beyond.