By employing empirical and secondary data (qualitative and quantitative), this study demonstrates how social equity (with its three dimensions) can meaningfully address the conservation of the coastal social–ecological system (SES), without losing diverse ecosystem services (ES) in south-east coastal Bangladesh. Based on this proposition, this study assesses the available ES and identifies the drivers responsible for ES changes, arguing for the application of social equity for resource conservation. The findings show that communities along Bangladesh’s south-eastern coast use several ES for food, medicine, income, livelihoods, and cultural heritage. However, this valuable ecosystem is currently experiencing numerous threats and stressors of anthropogenic and natural origin. In particular, large-scale development activities, driven by the blue growth agenda, and neoliberalism policy, pose a risk to the local communities by degrading coastal ecosystem services. Escaping this situation for coastal natural resource-dependent communities in Bangladesh will require a transformation in the governance structure. Implementing the Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) Guidelines that call for initiating policy change to deliver social justice to small-scale fisheries would help to address coastal ecosystem service conservation in Bangladesh.

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沿海生态系统服务，社会公平与蓝色增长：来自孟加拉国东南部的案例研究

通过使用经验数据和辅助数据（定性和定量），本研究证明了社会公平（具有三个维度）如何有效地解决沿海社会生态系统（SES）的保护问题，而又不丧失南部的多样化生态系统服务（ES）东部沿海孟加拉国。基于此命题，本研究评估了可用的ES并确定了导致ES更改的驱动因素，并主张将社会公平应用于资源节约。研究结果表明，孟加拉国东南沿海的社区将几种ES用于粮食，药品，收入，生计和文化遗产。但是，这个宝贵的生态系统目前正遭受着许多人为和自然起源的威胁和压力。特别是大规模的开发活动，在蓝色增长议程和新自由主义政策的推动下，沿海生态系统服务质量下降，给当地社区带来了风险。要使孟加拉国依赖沿海自然资源的社区摆脱这种局面，就需要改变治理结构。实施《小规模渔业（SSF）准则》，要求启动政策变革，为小规模渔业提供社会正义，将有助于解决孟加拉国的沿海生态系统服务保护问题。