Looking for Sustainable solutions in salmon aquaculture
Sustainable development poses highly complex issues for those who attempt to implement it. Using the Brundtland Commission's definition of sustainable development as a vantage point, this article discusses the issues posed by the production of one kind of food, farmed Atlantic salmon, as a mean...
| Published in: | Etikk i praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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NTNU Open Access Journals
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2452317 https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v8i1.1801 |
| Summary: | Sustainable development poses highly complex issues for those who attempt to implement it. Using the Brundtland Commission's definition of sustainable development as a vantage point, this article discusses the issues posed by the production of one kind of food, farmed Atlantic salmon, as a means of illustrating the complexity, interconnectedness and highdata requirements involved in assessing whether a given industry is sustainable. These issues are explored using the three commonly accepted aspects of sustainability - its environmental, social and economic aspects - and the dilemmas posed by the need to make the trade-offs necessary among these. It concludes by arguing that decisions of this complexity require complex and multiple decision-making structures and suggests four that are essential for the task. publishedVersion This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
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