Worldwide, marine conflicts are growing in frequency and intensity due to increasing global demands for resources (Blue Growth) and climate change. This article introduces a collection in Maritime Studies on marine conflicts and pathways to sustainability in an era of Blue Growth and climate change. We posit that while conflict can be problematic, it can also play a positive role in bringing about societal change, by highlighting unsustainable and unjust practices and be a trigger for sustainability transformation. However, left unattended, festering marine conflict can hinder just and equitable sustainability transformation. We present two distinct, yet arguably complementary, lenses through which researchers working with sustainability engage with marine conflicts. First, a social-ecological systems approach engages in conflicts by examining the interdependencies between human and ecological systems and related governance arrangements, promoting collaborative learning and action, and exploring adaptive governance strategies that seek sustainability conflict resolution. Second, a political ecology approach addresses conflicts by examining power dynamics and resource (mal)distributions, arguing for fair governance, and emphasizing the need to address historical and current injustices that are at the root of conflicts. Next, we present insights on diverse sustainability transformational pathways, including the importance of searching for common ground and the need for the reconfiguration of power relations as key steps to understand and inform sustainability conflict research. We conclude by indicating that more sustainability research in marine conflict settings is needed and by forwarding intersectionality as a promising approach to productively reframe and disrupt the debilitating effects of deep-rooted marine sustainability conflicts.

在全球范围内，由于全球对资源的需求不断增加（蓝色增长）和气候变化，海洋冲突的频率和强度都在增加。本文介绍了海事研究中关于蓝色增长和气候变化时代的海洋冲突和可持续发展途径的收藏。我们认为，虽然冲突可能会带来问题，但它也可以通过突出不可持续和不公正的做法，在带来社会变革方面发挥积极作用，并成为可持续转型的触发因素。然而，如果放任不管，日益恶化的海洋冲突可能会阻碍公正、公平的可持续发展转型。我们提出了两个截然不同但可以说是互补的视角，致力于可持续发展的研究人员可以通过这两个视角来处理海洋冲突。首先，社会生态系统方法通过研究人类和生态系统之间的相互依赖关系以及相关的治理安排，促进协作学习和行动，并探索寻求可持续冲突解决的适应性治理策略来解决冲突。其次，政治生态学方法通过检查权力动态和资源（不当）分配、主张公平治理并强调需要解决冲突根源的历史和当前不公正现象来解决冲突。接下来，我们提出了对多种可持续发展转型路径的见解，包括寻找共同点的重要性以及重新配置权力关系的必要性，作为理解和指导可持续发展冲突研究的关键步骤。最后，我们指出需要对海洋冲突环境进行更多的可持续性研究，并将交叉性作为一种有前途的方法来有效地重新构建和破坏根深蒂固的海洋可持续性冲突的破坏性影响。