GPSS held a workshop on sustainable seafood with a special invited guest from the Stockholm Resilience Center

GPSS have invited Abigayil Blandon, a highly accomplished PhD candidate at the Stockholm Resilience Center to present on her research on Sustainable Seafood. Together with Blandon, GPSS invited Yuki Sano, an Assistant Professor at IFI and Naya Sena, a post-doc at AORI, as discussants. GPSS students actively participated in the workshop and contributed to the discussion.

Please see details of the invited speakers and the research abstract below. 

Seafood has the potential to contribute to the shift to sustainable global diets. However, seafood production is faced with multiple dimensions of sustainability problems. The current market-based seafood sustainability movement has limited power and reach, and we require more variety in the tools we use to solve sustainability problems in the seafood industry. I present two studies that help to broaden "what" is considered within "sustainable seafood" and "how" actors are currently working towards it. The first paper is a Q method study exploring how actors who work in the seafood system in Japan and Sweden conceptualise "sustainable seafood". The second paper is a literature review summarising the alternative approaches to the current seafood sustainability movement. I finish by detailing my plans to explore more "relational" approaches to sustainable seafood, with my fieldwork investigating strategies in food cooperatives in Japan.

- For details of Abigayil see here.

- For details of Yuki see here.

- For details of Naya see here.