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Table 1_Examining the shades of blue in the blue economy: a perspective on disaggregating impacts on food security in Puerto Rico.docx Liliana Sierra Castillo (10063176) Nicolás X. Gómez Andújar (24932449) Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz (10041836) Megan Elaine Considine (24932452) Nathania Martinez-Gonzalez (24932455) Food Packaging, Preservation and Safety coastal communities colonialism ocean equity SIDS (Small Island Developing States) small-scale fisheries <p>The Blue Economy has been promoted globally as a framework for sustainable ocean development, promising economic growth, conservation, and improved well-being through sectors such as tourism, fisheries, and aquaculture. It has been particularly championed as a win-win approach in low and middle-income countries and territories across the Global South. Yet its success is typically measured through narrow quantitative indicators such as production levels, revenues, and growth rates, while overlooking the social, cultural, and equity dimensions that shape how benefits and burdens are distributed across sectors and communities. As these initiatives expand, understanding their impacts on local food systems, community well-being, and equity implications becomes increasingly urgent, particularly in (neo)colonial and non-sovereign places where governance structures constrain local control, such as Puerto Rico. Yet the indicators used to evaluate progress for Blue Economy policies often fail to capture implications for wellbeing, food security, and equity. Recent scholarship on equitable Blue Economies calls for social indicators that assess differentiated impacts across groups. Building on Cisneros-Montemayor et al. (2025), this study draws from author experience and exploratory data from Puerto Rico to examine the desegregated impacts, and equity implications of tourism and aquaculture, while gesturing toward possible directions for indicator development grounded in the author’s lived Puerto Rico experience. It argues that without equity-oriented evaluation frameworks and justice-centered governance design, Blue Economy agendas risk reproducing historical inequities rather than improving livelihoods in Puerto Rico and across the Global South.</p> 2026-09-15T12:16:53Z Dataset Dataset 10.3389/fsufs.2026.1854048.s001 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Table_1_Examining_the_shades_of_blue_in_the_blue_economy_a_perspective_on_disaggregating_impacts_on_food_security_in_Puerto_Rico_docx/33791839 CC BY 4.0