Media framing of aquaculture

Olsen, Marit Schei; Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2016.11.013

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“…Beyond the time required to collect the data from the archives, and the instances of not being able to determine the location where a crime was committed, other scholars seeking to collect data on crime for other developing country settings should be encouraged that our data were useful in allowing us to analyze the spatial nature of crime. Data from the media has long been identified as important for scientific research see [50][51][52][53][54][55] and our analysis re-affirmed this point. However, we must also note that beyond the Stabroek News, there are three additional newspapers with online archives that can be used to crosscheck details on crime in Guyana.…”

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confidence: 76%

The Spill Over of Crime from Urban Centers: An Account of the Changing Spatial Distribution of Violent Crime in Guyana

Cummings

Markandey

Das

et al. 2019

IJGI

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As the rate of crime decelerates in the developed world, the opposite phenomenon is being observed in the developing world, including Latin America and the Caribbean. Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean has been concentrated in urban settings, but the expertise for studying crime and providing guidance on policing remain heavily rooted in the developed world. A hindrance to studying crime in the developing world is the difficulty in obtaining official data, allowing for generalizations on where crime is concentrated to persist. This paper tackles two challenges facing crime analysis in the developing world: the availability of data and an examination of whether crime is concentrated in urban settings. We utilized newspaper archival data to study the spatial distribution of crime in Guyana, South America, across the landscape, and in relation to rural indigenous villages. Three spatial analysis tools, hotspot analysis, mean center, and standard deviation ellipse were used to examine the changing distribution of crime across 20 years. Based on 3900 reports of violent crime, our analyses suggest that the center of the gravity of crime changed over the years, spilling over to indigenous peoples' landscapes. An examination of murder, where firearms and bladed weapons were the weapons of choice, suggests that these weapons moved beyond the coastal zone. The movement of weapons away from the coast raises concerns for the security of indigenous peoples and their associated wildlife. Our analysis suggests that policing measures should seek to extend towards Amerindian landscapes, and this is perhaps indicative of Latin American states with demographics similar to Guyana's.For the most part, however, criminologists and crime scientists, most of whom work in developed /Westernized nations, have paid little attention to this problem [3] (although see Shenderovich et al. [6]). Natarajan's [3] observations on the contrasting treatment of crime in the developed versus developing world were contained in a publication among a series that used data from El Salvador [7,8], India [9], Colombia [10], Brazil [11,12], among other developing countries [13,14], and gave attention to crime studies and analysis in developing world settings. While Natarajan's [3] argument is relevant and timely, criminology in the developing world has not been entirely neglected. Scholars, including Appiahene-Gyamfi [15][16][17], Araujo [18], Cummings et al. [19], Pujol-Luz et al. [20], Reuter and O'Regan [21], Scabin et al. [22], Souza et al. [23], Spiegel et al. [24], de Melo et al. [25], and Valente [26], have examined various aspects of crime in the developing world. In Amazonia, in particular, the struggle over access to natural resources and the resulting tensions that develop from logging, gold mining, cattle farming, and similar activities tend to dominate the discussion around crime [22]. Beyond simply mapping the cases of deforestation and degradation due to illegal activities, however, there is a growing body of literature aimed at managing ...

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 76%

The Spill Over of Crime from Urban Centers: An Account of the Changing Spatial Distribution of Violent Crime in Guyana

Cummings

Markandey

Das

et al. 2019

IJGI

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“…& ) and biodiversity risks from aquaculture farms than the members of the public in the other countries (Table ). This may be related to the debate about the expanding salmon aquaculture industry in Norway and its significant media coverage (Olsen & Osmundsen ). Through escapees and introgression of aquaculture genotypes into wild stocks, there is evidence that farmed salmon have had direct and indirect negative impacts on wild salmon populations (Bolstad et al.…”

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Public perception of river fish biodiversity in four European countries

Kochalski

Riepe

Fujitani

et al. 2018

Conservation Biology

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Public support for biodiversity conservation is shaped by people's values and their knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes toward the environment. We conducted the first multinational representative survey of the general public's perceptions of river fish biodiversity in France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden. For the online survey, 1000 respondents per country were randomly selected from large panels following country-specific quotas set on age, gender, and educational level. Questions covered people's level of knowledge, beliefs, values, and attitudes toward river fish, environmental threats, and conservation measures. We found that the public had limited knowledge of freshwater fishes. Two non-native species, rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), were widely perceived as native, whereas native Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) was mostly classified as native in Scandinavia and largely as non-native in central Europe. These results suggest an extinction of experience paralleling the extirpation or decline of salmon stocks in countries such as Germany and France. Respondents thought pollution was the dominant threat to riverine fish biodiversity. In reality, habitat loss, dams, and the spread of non-native fishes are equally important. Despite limited biological knowledge, respondents from all countries held an overwhelmingly proecological worldview, supported conservation stocking, and appreciated native fishes, although only a minority interacted with them directly. Differences among the 4 countries related to several conservation issues. For example, threats to biodiversity stemming from aquaculture were perceived as more prevalent in Norway compared with the other 3 countries. Promoting fish conservation based on charismatic species and use values of fishes may work well in countries with a strong economic and cultural link to the freshwater environment, such as Norway. In countries where people rather abstractly care for nature, focusing conservation messaging on broader ecosystem traits and non-use values of fishes is likely to win more support.

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“…The priorities of the companies involved in the interviews and workshops were found to be affected by possible harms for the profit or the reputation of the industry. A recent study concludes that media's negative publicity of the fish farming industry influences not only the public, but also constricts the regulatory focus on sustainability to environmental risks (Olsen & Osmundsen 2017). Furthermore, a general industry standard for a holistic risk management across the regulatory disciplines is lacking, and safety requirements concerning similar objectives are found in separate regulations.…”

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The status of risk assessments in Norwegian fish farming

Holmen¹,

Utne²,

Haugen³

et al. 2017

Safety and Reliability – Theory and Applications

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The oceans will become the major contributor to the needed increase in global food production towards 2050. The fish farming industry is characterised by operations that are susceptible to changing weather, wind and currents, and face challenges when it comes to safety for fish and personnel. Previous research and accident analyses reveal a lack of understanding of risk factors during aquaculture operations. The objective of the paper is primarily to describe the status for risk assessments practices in the Norwegian fish farming industry according to the regulatory requirements. To improve the safety level at workplaces, the operators need to be aware of the safety challenges in their working environment. A practical approach to risk assessments based on preliminary hazard analysis is presented in this paper. This approach has been developed in cooperation with the aquaculture industry and has been evaluated in a series of workshops involving several operators with good results.

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Media framing of aquaculture

Cited by 82 publications

References 20 publications

The Spill Over of Crime from Urban Centers: An Account of the Changing Spatial Distribution of Violent Crime in Guyana

The Spill Over of Crime from Urban Centers: An Account of the Changing Spatial Distribution of Violent Crime in Guyana

Public perception of river fish biodiversity in four European countries

The status of risk assessments in Norwegian fish farming

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