Plastics’ circular economy for the Galápagos Islands? Exploring plastics governance with implications for social and ocean equity in a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Juan José Alava; María José Barragán-Paladines; Jessica Vandenberg; Gabriela Alonso-Yanez; Marcia Moreno-Báez; Nastenka Calle; Judith Denkinger; Ibrahim Issifu; Eduardo Espinoza; Nikita Gaibor; Mauricio Velásquez; Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor

doi:10.3389/fmars.2024.1496213

Plastics’ circular economy for the Galápagos Islands? Exploring plastics governance with implications for social and ocean equity in a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Juan José Alava^*
, María José Barragán-Paladines
, Jessica Vandenberg
, Gabriela Alonso-Yanez
, Marcia Moreno-Báez
, Nastenka Calle
, Judith Denkinger
, Ibrahim Issifu
, Eduardo Espinoza
, Nikita Gaibor
, Mauricio Velásquez
, Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor

^*Corresponding author for this work

Biología

University of British Columbia
Simon Fraser University
Charles Darwin Foundation Santa Cruz
Harvard University
University of Calgary
Tufts University
Ocean EcoQuest
Geman Ocean Museum
Direccion Parque Nacional Galapagos
Instituto Público de Investigación de Acuicultura y Pesca
Development Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF)

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Original language	English
Article number	1496213
Journal	Frontiers in Marine Science
Volume	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1496213
State	Published - 2024

UN SDGs

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

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

Galápagos Islands
blue economy
colonialism
equitable solutions
ocean equity
plastic pollution impacts
plastics circular economy
plastics governance

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Alava, J. J., Barragán-Paladines, M. J., Vandenberg, J., Alonso-Yanez, G., Moreno-Báez, M., Calle, N., Denkinger, J., Issifu, I., Espinoza, E., Gaibor, N., Velásquez, M., & Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M. (2024). Plastics’ circular economy for the Galápagos Islands? Exploring plastics governance with implications for social and ocean equity in a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, Article 1496213. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1496213

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Plastics’ circular economy for the Galápagos Islands? Exploring plastics governance with implications for social and ocean equity in a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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