Resumo

The bases for what would come to be the so-called Blue Economy were laid in the context of the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, also known as ECO-92, which took place in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 (Chua, 2013; Eikeset et al., 2018; Grip, 2013; Neumann, Ott, & Kenchington, 2017). At the meeting, some countries realized that it did not make sense for them to talk about the Green Economy, so these Small Island Developing States (SIDS) warned to broaden the debate in order to have greater representation.

The objective was to survey the state-of-the-art scientific articles directly or indirectly linked to the term Blue Economy (or its correlate Blue Growth) through a systematic literature review.

Given the heterogeneity of adopters of the term, it is natural that the concept may rep-resent different issues for each of them, in such a way that it is still possible to have disso-nance in the way each author perceives the concept of Blue Economy (Silver, Gray, Campbell, Fairbanks, & Gruby, 2015).

This section item presents the main results found and is structured as follows: at first, the statistical and descriptive results from the bibliometric analysis are presented; secondly, a systematic analysis was carried out in order to identify the primary epistemic and methodolog-ical fields in the construction of theory and praxis of research in Blue Economy; and, in the third moment, the results from the thematic analysis are presented, listing the main research themes and action strategies that involve Blue Economy in the search languages.

This study opens suggestions for more in-depth research on Blue Economy and related themes, which may help public managers, researchers, the private sector, and local fishermen’s organizations, as well as other public and private institutions to promote sustainable develop-ment based on oceans, seas, coasts, and other aquatic environments from the perspective of Blue Economy.

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