The operationalisation of sustainability: Sustainable aquaculture production as defined by certification schemes

Osmundsen, Tonje Cecilie; Amundsen, Vilde Steiro; Alexander, Karen; Asche, Frank; Bailey, Jennifer L.; Finstad, Bengt; Olsen, Marit Schei; Hernández, Klaudia L.; Salgado, Hugo

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.102025

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“…These arrangements are initiated through a collaborative process between businesses and NGOs, sometimes with the involvement of governments, but generally without the sanctioning power of governments (Glasbergen 2013). Certification schemes have become increasingly important for aquaculture and generally focus on environmental and governance, while rarely covering aspects such as wealth distribution, equity, or employee interests and wellbeing (Osmundsen et al 2020).…”

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Scenarios for Global Aquaculture and Its Role in Human Nutrition

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Golden

Asche

et al. 2020

Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture

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Global demand for freshwater and marine foods (i.e., seafood) is rising and an increasing proportion is farmed. Aquaculture encompasses a range of species and cultivation methods, resulting in diverse social, economic, nutritional, and environmental outcomes. As a result, how aquaculture develops will influence human wellbeing and environmental health outcomes. Recognition of this has spurred a push for nutrition-sensitive aquaculture, which aims to benefit public health through the production of diverse, nutrient-rich seafood and enabling equitable access. This article explores plausible aquaculture futures and their role in nutrition security using a qualitative scenario approach. Two dimensions of economic developmentthe degree of globalization and the predominant economic development philosophybound four scenarios representing systems that are either localized or globalized, and orientated toward maximizing sectoral economic growth or to meeting environmental and equity dimensions of sustainability. The potential contribution of aquaculture in improving nutrition security is then evaluated within each scenario. While aquaculture could be "nutrition-sensitive" under any of the scenarios, its contribution to addressing health inequities is more likely in the economic and political context of a more globally harmonized trade environment and where economic policies are oriented toward social equity and environmental sustainability.

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Scenarios for Global Aquaculture and Its Role in Human Nutrition

Gephart

Golden

Asche

et al. 2020

Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture

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“…TOMA may also be useful for developing appropriate indicators of food system (transitions to) sustainability to evaluate and inform related propositions such as put forward by Béné et al (2019), IFPRI (2016), and Murray and Koehring (2018). By doing so TOMA can contribute to the operationalisation of sustainability (Osmundson et al 2020).…”

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Towards an integral perspective on leveraging sustainability transformations using the theory of modal aspects

Wigboldus

Jochemsen

2020

Sustain Sci

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Engaging appropriately with sustainability transformations requires adopting an integral perspective on related system dynamics. This view underpins the sustainable development goals. Informing policy and decision making from a consistently integral perspective, however, remains a key challenge. To some extent, the leverage points approach has proved useful in doing so in terms of providing an encompassing view on related options for intervening in systems. There are, however, a number of points in which it needs to be complemented by other approaches to better address the need for an integral perspective on sustainability transformations as well as to better address the need for being able to articulate normative perspectives on transformation processes and outcomes. We argue that the theory of modal aspects is a good candidate for doing so. To illustrate its potential, we explore its characteristics, we illustrate its application opportunities in the analysis of sustainability in food systems transitions, we systematically compare leverage points and modal aspects, and close with an exploration of ways in which the leverage points approach and theory of modal aspects can be considered complementary perspectives. The authors conclude that the theory of modal aspects offers opportunities for enriching both the leverage points approach and wider approaches in sustainability transformations by offering a consistently integral perspective across scale levels, and by offering a number of ways of engaging with normativity in related processes without resorting to fixed political views. This articulates its potential for playing a useful role in related multi-stakeholder processes and sustainability governance.

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“…Ecolabeling is becoming increasingly popular in the seafood market, with a rapidly increasing number of labels as well as certified fisheries or aquaculture plants (Osmundsen et al, 2020;. Moreover, in a number of countries, country-of-origin labeling is mandatory and is believed to lead to a preference for domestic origin (Asche et al, 2015).…”

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“…The number of available seafood ecolabels, as well as the types of sustainability claims they aim to include, is increasing rapidly (Osmundsen et al, 2020;Zander & Feucht, 2018). Alfnes, Chen, and Rickertsen (2018) find that salmon producers can choose between 48 different labels; these include labels that cover all seafood, salmonspecific labels as well as generic labels such as organic.…”

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Brands, Labels, and Product Longevity: The Case of Salmon in UK Grocery Retailing

Asche

Sogn‐Grundvåg

Zhang

et al. 2021

Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing

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In recent years, the number of ecolabels and country-of-origin labels has grown substantially in seafood markets globally. This makes it more difficult for retailers and producers to communicate and demonstrate their differentiating claims to consumers. In addition, it has recently been suggested that there are both costs and supply chain benefits associated with labeling. This paper uses duration analysis to investigate factors that influence product longevity for salmon in grocery retailing. Product longevity influences cost as a prolonged product lifetime reduces costs related to product development and marketing. As has been found for wild-caught whitefish, different retail chains appear to vary in their product labeling strategies. However, in contrast to wild fish, farmed salmon with ecolabels or domestic country-of-origin labels appear to have shorter product life cycles compared to products without ecolabels or with foreign country-of-origin labeling. This is most likely due to the higher control of the production process found in aquaculture.

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The operationalisation of sustainability: Sustainable aquaculture production as defined by certification schemes

Cited by 119 publications

References 42 publications

Scenarios for Global Aquaculture and Its Role in Human Nutrition

Scenarios for Global Aquaculture and Its Role in Human Nutrition

Towards an integral perspective on leveraging sustainability transformations using the theory of modal aspects

Brands, Labels, and Product Longevity: The Case of Salmon in UK Grocery Retailing

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