Towards Sustainable Seafood: The Evolution of a Conservation Movement

Civic Engagement and Environmentalism in Emerging Adulthood

10.1093/oso/9780199934263.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Michael W. Pratt ◽

M. Kyle Matsuba

Keyword(s):

Civic Engagement ◽

Emerging Adults ◽

Life Story ◽

The United States ◽

Research Literature ◽

John Muir ◽

Conservation Movement ◽

Key Points ◽

Positive Engagement

Chapter 9 focuses on contexts of positive engagement in the domain of the wider society among emerging adults. The authors examine the growing research literature on civic engagement and volunteering, covering patterns of development and change during emerging to young adulthood, describing how this development is linked to the three personality levels of the McAdams and Pals model. They also describe work on one salient contemporary type of civic engagement, environmentalism, and review what is known on this particular topic in youth. The authors cover the evidence on both of these domains from their Futures Study sample, using both questionnaire and narrative material to expand these findings. As a way of illuminating the key points, the chapter ends with a case study of the early life story of John Muir, an important founder of the environmental and conservation movement in the United States.

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Fraud in highly appreciated fish detected from DNA in Europe may undermine the Development Goal of sustainable fishing in Africa

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-91020-w ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Carmen Blanco-Fernandez ◽

Alba Ardura ◽

Paula Masiá ◽

Noemi Rodriguez ◽

Laura Voces ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Pcr Amplification ◽

Molecular Tools ◽

Food Authenticity ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

Fish Samples ◽

Sustainable Seafood ◽

The Relationship ◽

Unregulated Fishing ◽

High Effort

AbstractDespite high effort for food traceability to ensure safe and sustainable consumption, mislabeling persists on seafood markets. Determining what drives deliberate fraud is necessary to improve food authenticity and sustainability. In this study, the relationship between consumer’s appreciation and fraudulent mislabeling was assessed through a combination of a survey on consumer’s preferences (N = 1608) and molecular tools applied to fish samples commercialized by European companies. We analyzed 401 samples of fish highly consumed in Europe and worldwide (i.e. tuna, hake, anchovy, and blue whiting) through PCR-amplification and sequencing of a suite of DNA markers. Results revealed low mislabeling rate (1.9%), with a higher mislabeling risk in non-recognizable products and significant mediation of fish price between consumer´s appreciation and mislabeling risk of a species. Furthermore, the use of endangered species (e.g. Thunnus thynnus), tuna juveniles for anchovy, and still not regulated Merluccius polli hake as substitutes, points towards illegal, unreported and/or unregulated fishing from African waters. These findings reveal a worrying intentional fraud that hampers the goal of sustainable seafood production and consumption, and suggest to prioritize control efforts on highly appreciated species.

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Romanian geography reunited ? the integrative approach demonstrated by the conservation movement

GeoJournal ◽

10.1007/bf00185345 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 6 (5) ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

D. Turnock

Keyword(s):

Integrative Approach ◽

Conservation Movement

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The Sustainable Seafood Movement Is a Governance Concert, with the Audience Playing a Key Role

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10010180 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 180 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Kate Barclay ◽

Alice Miller

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Willingness To Pay ◽

Market Share ◽

Consumer Demand ◽

Price Premiums ◽

Private Standards ◽

Sustainable Seafood ◽

Individual Actor ◽

Qualitative Literature ◽

Sustainable Sourcing

Private standards, including ecolabels, have been posed as a governance solution for the global fisheries crisis. The conventional logic is that ecolabels meet consumer demand for certified “sustainable” seafood, with “good” players rewarded with price premiums or market share and “bad” players punished by reduced sales. Empirically, however, in the markets where ecolabeling has taken hold, retailers and brands—rather than consumers—are demanding sustainable sourcing, to build and protect their reputation. The aim of this paper is to devise a more accurate logic for understanding the sustainable seafood movement, using a qualitative literature review and reflection on our previous research. We find that replacing the consumer-driven logic with a retailer/brand-driven logic does not go far enough in making research into the sustainable seafood movement more useful. Governance is a “concert” and cannot be adequately explained through individual actor groups. We propose a new logic going beyond consumer- or retailer/brand-driven models, and call on researchers to build on the partial pictures given by studies on prices and willingness-to-pay, investigating more fully the motivations of actors in the sustainable seafood movement, and considering audience beyond the direct consumption of the product in question.

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