Should we adapt nature to climate change? Weighing the risks of selective breeding in Pacific salmon

Berseth, Valerie

doi:10.1080/23251042.2022.2144476

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“…First, we encourage budding sociologists of climate change adaptation to build on the existing adaptation literature. There is significant work on adaptation out there and it is important that we humble ourselves to fully understand it in order to advance it (see, e.g., Adger et al, 2003Adger et al, , 2005Barnett & O'Neill, 2010;Bassett & Fogelman, 2013;Ensor et al, 2019;Eriksen et al, 2021;Huq et al, 2004;Koslov, 2019;Mikulewicz, 2020;Nightingale, 2017;Omukuti, 2020;Pelling, 2011;Robinson, 2018;Schipper, 2006;Scoville-Simonds et al, 2020;Taylor, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Last, we highlight several scholars who are doing work on or directly adjacent to adaptation, in ways that suggest opportunities for research going forward. Berseth (2023) raises the question of using selective breeding methods to increase the resilience of salmon populations as a case of “adapting nature to climate change.” Norgaard (2019) examines indigeneity and the emotions of climate change. Fisher's (2024) work on social movements and “saving ourselves” speaks to the ability of advocacy and activism in shaping climate futures.…”

Section: The Foundations For a Sociology Of Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A call for a sociology of adaptation

Falzon,

Sen

2024

Sociological Forum

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Interest in examining climate change adaptation has arisen in many disciplines in the past two decades; however to date, sociologists have given only sparse attention to the issue. This is both a missed opportunity for sociologists and a detriment to the study of adaptation. In this paper, we set out the following research agenda: bringing core concerns of sociology into the critically important conversation of how society will respond to climate change. We identify five broad themes in which sociologists can begin their work on adaptation: (1) structures and resource access, (2) social cohesion and future planning, (3) constraints of social stratifications, (4) power and agency in decision‐making, and (5) justice in process and outcomes. After summarizing existing sociological work on adaptation and detailing our research agenda, we draw examples from our own work in Bangladesh to illustrate how this agenda might be taken up. In doing so, we point to several places where sociological insights come into play in questions related to development, organizations, expertise, migration, gender, and labor. We believe a robust sociological analysis can produce a clarified, reparative, and just conceptualization of adaptation that will contribute to the growing global discourse on the topic.

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A call for a sociology of adaptation

Falzon,

Sen

2024

Sociological Forum

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“…In our experiences, such criteria and values are ineffectual at accounting for the social benefits (Harrison, Kochalski, et al., 2018) to communities (particularly in rural areas) in which hatcheries are embedded. As a result, they cannot accurately account for the public support that hatcheries receive (Berseth, 2022) nor the interest in new hatchery programs, particularly as seen in some Indigenous communities (Braun, 2022; Herz, 2023; k w ik w əƛ̓əm Kwikwetlem First Nation, 2022).…”

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A commentary on the role of hatcheries and stocking programs in salmon conservation and adapting ourselves to less‐than‐wild futures

Harrison,

Berseth

2024

Fish and Fisheries

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Hatcheries and stocking programs serve a variety of objectives, including the conservation of salmon populations. Much attention has been given to the importance of genetic integrity and adaptive capacity of salmon stocks, particularly as they interact with hatchery‐origin fish. Literature on hatchery and stocking programs has increasingly focused on genetic indicators of quality and success, with genetically ‘wild’ salmon valued over hatchery‐influenced salmon. However, conservation in the Anthropocene is challenging paradigms of wildness and definitions of conservation success. For salmon populations that exist on the ragged edge of climate change where threats are unlikely to be remediated to the status of ecologies past, definitions of ‘wild’ and the role of conservation hatcheries and stocking becomes convoluted. If definitions of ‘wild’ or ‘natural’ salmon depend on salmon archetypes situated in historic ecologies, then what do salmon futures look like? In that context, we argue to expand from primarily genetic criteria for conservation stocking to additional criteria cognizant of hybrid ecosystems and future human‐salmon relationships. We draw on the concept of adaptive epistemologies within the context of conservation‐oriented hatchery and stocking programs to critically reflect on knowledge paradigms and values that underlie salmon conservation stocking efforts and the changing ecosystems in which they are situated. We critique ‘wild’ discourses rooted in western thought and make suggestions toward a reimagining of salmon conservation‐via‐hatchery in the Anthropocene that allows for expansive human‐salmon futures. Critically, we conclude with warnings against using the arguments in this paper as social permission to use hatcheries as a conservation panacea.

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Sociologies of climate change are not enough. Putting the global biodiversity crisis on the sociological agenda

Lockie

2023

Environmental Sociology

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Should we adapt nature to climate change? Weighing the risks of selective breeding in Pacific salmon

Cited by 3 publications

References 47 publications

A call for a sociology of adaptation

A call for a sociology of adaptation

A commentary on the role of hatcheries and stocking programs in salmon conservation and adapting ourselves to less‐than‐wild futures

Sociologies of climate change are not enough. Putting the global biodiversity crisis on the sociological agenda

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