Abstract

Social justice, climate justice and blue justice are rights-based ethics and key advocacy issues globally. All are relatively recent concepts although social justice themes can be found in religious texts and practices. Social justice aims for an inclusive, equitable and integrative society, concerned with how to allocate resources fairly (UN 2006). An urgent global justice concern is that those who suffer most from climate change have done the least to cause it. Climate justice aims for fair sharing and equitable distribution of the burdens of climate change and its responsibilities (Adams and Luchsinger 2009; UN 1992). Blue justice addresses how small-scale fisheries (SSF) are affected by blue economy initiatives and is the ‘moral compass’ to the blue economy (Cohen 2019). The concept encompasses environmental and social injustices that continue to be perpetrated in irresponsible marine resource development and unsustainable use from policy to practice (Bennett et al. 2021; Schreiber et al. 2022). These relational concepts recognize the realities of human dependency and address human vulnerability (Fineman 2019).

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