Cristin-resultat-ID: 1824093
Sist endret: 11. desember 2020, 14:47
NVI-rapporteringsår: 2020
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2020

‘Social stuff’ and all that jazz: Understanding the residual category of social sustainability

Bidragsytere:
  • Karen A. Alexander
  • Vilde Steiro Amundsen og
  • Tonje Cecilie Osmundsen

Tidsskrift

Environmental Science and Policy
ISSN 1462-9011
e-ISSN 1873-6416
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2020
Volum: 112
Sider: 61 - 68
Open Access

Importkilder

Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85086399374

Klassifisering

Vitenskapsdisipliner

Statsvitenskap og organisasjonsteori

Emneord

Sertifisering • Havbruk • Bærekraftsrapportering

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Tittel

‘Social stuff’ and all that jazz: Understanding the residual category of social sustainability

Sammendrag

Recently we have seen a substantial increase in pressure for industries, such as aquaculture, to become more sustainable. When it comes to practical attempts to operationalise sustainable development, however, the ‘social stuff’ is often neglected. In this paper, we provide a detailed exploration of how the concept of social sustainability is operationalised (and therefore understood) within the aquaculture certification context. We found that a) certification schemes do address social sustainability, but relevant indicators mostly focus on workers’ rights, or link directly back to environmental sustainability (through the consequences of environmental impact on humans); and b) the actions required often add little over and above existing legal requirements. Essentially, aquaculture sustainability certification schemes have not (yet) taken the opportunity to further shape our understanding of what social sustainability means, or how it is practiced. The consequence of this may be the impression that industries are truly sustainable, just because they have obtained sustainability certification.

Bidragsytere

Karen A. Alexander

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved University of Tasmania

Vilde Steiro Amundsen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap ved Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Studio Apertura ved NTNU Samfunnsforskning AS

Tonje Cecilie Osmundsen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Studio Apertura ved NTNU Samfunnsforskning AS
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