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The Pacific Ocean is a lived, imagined, studied, interpreted, and travelled cultural space. Much Indigenous or traditional knowledge of that space has already been endangered or lost. Today, however, pathways for reviving cultural knowledge are opening up. This chapter reveals that the Pacific has a well-developed institutional and policy basis for ocean management, and shows how National Ocean Policies are increasingly being developed by Pacific Island states. Opportunities for further formalisation of oceanic cultural values are apparent including through The Blue Pacific narrative and The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030).
The research presented in this chapter was contributed without direct funding, except for the lead author who was funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) (Grant Ref: NE/S008950/1 One Ocean Hub).
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Hills, J. et al. (2022). Blue Heritage in the Blue Pacific. In: Boswell, R., O’Kane, D., Hills, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99347-4_16
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