Challenges to the Future of Thailand’s Blue Economy

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Each of the twelve elements of the blur economy do not have the same weight as each other. Each is scored from one to five according to the necessity to the economy. Each can be ranked as follows: tourism (4), fisheries (3), marine waste management (2), 
shipyard (3), aquaculture near the sea (3), energy (4), logistics (5), renewable energy from the sea (2), desalination (2), pharmaceutical industry (2), minerals under the sea (1), and ports (3). Nine challenges weigh differently, and are scored from one to five. This appears as such: Thailand’s effort to reduce the degradation of marine resources (5), increase the recruitment in the marine sector (3), its effort to reduce climate change (4), its thorough stewardship of marine resources (3), an improvement of human rights (2), reduce fossil energy use (5), efficient waste disposal (2), green port (2), and appreciation of the sea (4). 
Not all non-traditional threats are associated with every one of challenges, the detail can be seen in table 3. Challenges can be prioritized based on non-traditional threats by using the quantitative method derived from Bartlett’s model and arranged from the most important to least important.