SustainFish

The link til Vildes trial lecture and public defense is here.

https://NTNU.zoom.us/j/98106764462?pwd=eUJwMU5aaWNDd2VpdEtaWkFjaVU5dz09

- password 260066

The trial lecture starts at 1015 CET
And the public defense at 1215 CET

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A great event is soon approaching - PhD Scholar Vilde Amundsen will publically defend her thesis on the 4th of December.
The following comitee has assessed her work:
- Professor Simon Bush, Wageningen University
- Professor Jahn Petter Johnsen, UiT Norges arktiske universitet
- Førsteamanuensis Gunhild Tøndel, NTNU

The topic for the public lecture is: «Technical instrument or social institution: What are the roles of aquaculture certification schemes in relation to the system-to-be-governed and the governing system?»

The public lecture as well as the defense will be accessible on Zoom - and the link to join will, a few days before, be made public here: https://www.ntnu.no/kalender/detaljer/-/event/15090f09-a7af-31a6-abfe-f9db546ff37b

In the latest article from the SustainFish project, we ask how certification schemes improve aquaculture production. We find that schemes oriented towards continuous improvement and flexibility are better suited for promoting behavioral change. Read more here:

Becoming certified, becoming sustainable? Improvements from aquaculture certification schemes as experienced by those certified While the effectiveness of sustainability certification has been studied through many different approaches, an understudied dimension is the behaviora…

Investigating the content of social topics in certification - a new article is out in the SustainFish project 👏👏👏

‘Social stuff’ and all that jazz: Understanding the residual category of social sustainability Recently we have seen a substantial increase in pressure for industries, such as aquaculture, to become more sustainable. When it comes to practical a…

Vilde Steiro Amundsen has completed her PhD thesis from the SustainFish project. It will now undergo evaluation from an external committee and hopefully lead to a public defense. Congratulations, Vilde!

Providing a valid lexicon for sustainability for the aquaculture industry - a new article is out from the SustainFish project.

The operationalisation of sustainability: Sustainable aquaculture production as defined by certification schemes Sustainability certification has become an increasingly important feature in aquaculture production, leading to a multitude of schemes with various cr…

A new article is published on the use of salmon lice as an indicator in Norwegian aquaculture regulation. This tiny louse has had an impressive political career despite resistance and disagreements.

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Vilde Steiro Amundsen, Asle Gauteplass and Jennifer Leigh Bailey have just published a paper on the level of impact of certification in the journal Aquaculture Economics & Management.

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Level up or game over: the implications of levels of impact in certification schemes for salmon aquaculture (2019). Level up or game over: the implications of levels of impact in certification schemes for salmon aquaculture. Aquaculture Economics & Management. Ahead of Print.

PhD scholar, Vilde Steiro Amundsen, and project leader, Tonje C. Osmundsen - Forskningssjef, have recently published the paper “Virtually the Reality: Negotiating the Distance between Standards and Local Realities When Certifying Sustainable Aquaculture”.

Here they argue for the importance of the human element in sustainability auditing, as this is crucial for knowledge exchange between aquaculture companies and auditors.

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Virtually the Reality: Negotiating the Distance between Standards and Local Realities When Certifying Sustainable Aquaculture To account for the many challenges of increasingly global industries, remote regulation measures such as sustainability standards have become continuously more important as a means to ensure global accountability and transparency. As standard certification is assessed through audits, the legitimacy....

We cannot talk about environmental, economic and social sustainability in the same breath, assuming that this is all part of the same destination, says Vilde Steiro Amundsen at -

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For our Norwegian followers, project leader Tonje C. Osmundsen - Forskningssjef has written an op-ed piece about the role of civil servants in the public debate on aquaculture.

Ja, det er fullt mulig å ha to tanker i hodet på én gang - og både støtte norsk havbruksnæring og kritisere når det er på sin plass :-) Norges forskningsråd Sjømatbedriftene Sjømat Norge NTNU Samfunnsforskning

NTNU Samfunnsforskning was just granted funding from the Research Council of Norway (Norges forskningsråd) for yet another project related to sustainable aquaculture, SOLIC.Together with Nofima, NORCE, University of Tasmania, Karen Alexander and University of Iceland, this project explores the social license and reputation of the aquaculture industry.