Balancing act: analyzing the LAPSSET Corridor Program and its role in achieving sustainable blue economy in Kenya
Date
2024
Authors
Kang'ethe, N. N.
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Strathmore University
Abstract
This research is critically assessing the alignment of the LAPSSET Corridor project with the sustainable development goals emphasizing economic growth, social equity, and environmental conservation framed within the perspective of the blue economy. It explores the conflicts that emerge between achieving social equity, sustainable environment, and economic growth. The results, however, show that it has prioritized economic development and paid less attention to environmental and social issues. This approach, the research concludes, leads to ecological damage, precipitating a failure of blue economy projects in balancing all the crucial elements. To overcome these challenges, it is argued, balancing of economic gains with attendant ecological and social aspects of the blue economy is a condition precedent to a sustainable blue economy. In the end, Through the implementation of recommendations Kenya can seek a more equitable and sustainable way of economic development and hence the realizations of the well-being of communities and ecosystem conservation.
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Kang’ethe, N. N. (2024). Balancing act: Analyzing the LAPSSET Corridor Program and its role in achieving sustainable blue economy in Kenya [Strathmore University]. http://hdl.handle.net/11071/15849