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Aquaculture requires special consideration in National Action Plans for Antimicrobial Resistance
Desbois A. P., L. A. Brunton, P. J.G. Henriksson, O. Luthman, M. Troell, and D. M. Green. 2025. Aquaculture requires special consideration in National Action Plans for Antimicrobial Resistance. Science of The Total Environment 958:177785.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) demands collective action to reduce and mitigate its threats. The Quadripartite collaboration of the World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) has led development and implementation of National Action Plans (NAPs) that describe approaches each country will take to tackle AMR. All antimicrobial users...
A heart model of Earth stewardship: Shaking up science for positive futures
Scheffer, M., J. Anderies, T. Bjordam, J. Bollen, S. Carpenter, T. Chapin, C. Folke, F. Gazitua, M. Holmgren, J. Marcone, S. Polasky, E. Weber, and F. Westley. 2024. A heart model of Earth stewardship: Shaking up science for positive futures. Earth Stewardship 1(1): e12019.
Few disagree that we should pass on the Earth in good shape to future generations, and many scientists want their work to contribute to that goal. Recent work has shown that hopelessness stands in the way of people taking an active attitude. At the same time, it is becoming clear what can be done about that: providing compelling visions of attractive futures and highlighting feasible...
Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship
Jonsson, A., J. Haider, L. Pereira, A. Fremier, C. Folke, M. Tengö, and L. Gordon. 2024. Nurturing gastronomic landscapes for biosphere stewardship. Global Food Security 42: 100789.
As a result of years of increased rationalization and consolidation of food systems, the knowledge and skills of many actors in food value chains, especially those linked to smaller-scale traditional and artisanal production, processing, and cooking, have rapidly been eroded. Despite the resilience that such knowledge and skills can offer. In this paper, we use the lens of gastronomy to highlight how culinary craftsmanship and...
HIARA study protocol: impacts of artificial coral reef development on fisheries, human livelihoods and health in southwestern Madagascar
Golden, C.D. et al. 2024. HIARA study protocol: impacts of artificial coral reef development on fisheries, human livelihoods and health in southwestern Madagascar. Front. Public Health 12:1366110.
The Health Impacts of Artificial Reef Advancement (HIARA; in the Malagasy language, “together”) study cohort was set up in December 2022 to assess the economic and nutritional importance of seafood for the coastal Malagasy population living along the Bay of Ranobe in southwestern Madagascar. Over the course of the research, which will continue until at least 2026, the primary question we seek to answer is...
Resolving the term “offshore aquaculture” by decoupling “exposed” and “distance from the coast”
Buck, B.H., H.V. Bjelland, A. Bockus, M. Chambers, B.A. Costa-Pierce, T. Dewhurst, J.G. Ferreira, H.M. Føre, D.W. Fredriksson, N. Goseberg, J. Holmyard, W. Isbert, G. Krause, T. Markus, N. Papandroulakis, T. Sclodnick, B. Silkes, Å. Strand, M. Troell , D. Wieczorek, S.W.K. van den Burg, and K.G. Heasman. 2024. Resolving the term “offshore aquaculture” by decoupling “exposed” and “distance from the coast”. Front. Aquac 3:1428056.
The terms “offshore” and “open ocean” have been used to describe aquaculture sites that are further from the coast or in higher energy environments. Neither term has been clearly defined in the scientific literature nor in a legal context, and the terms are often used interchangeably. These and other related terms (for example “exposed”, “high-energy”) variously refer to aspects of a site such as the...
Towards Sustainable Antibiotic Use in Aquaculture and Antimicrobial Resistance: Participatory Experts’ Overview and Recommendations
Farías, D.R., IR. barra, R.A. Estévez, M.F. Tlusty, O. Nyberg, M. Troell, R. Avendaño-Herrera, and W. Norden. 2024. Towards Sustainable Antibiotic Use in Aquaculture and Antimicrobial Resistance: Participatory Experts’ Overview and Recommendations. Antibiotics 13:887.
Notably, 56 worldwide experts gathered for the Antimicrobial Assessment on Global Aquaculture Production (AGAP) series of workshops to (1) evaluate the current state of knowledge on antimicrobial use and identify existing gaps; (2) formulate strategies to identify ecologically relevant impact indicators and establish thresholds for assessment; (3) identify pivotal socioeconomic factors and effective governance mechanisms essential for implementing monitoring practices in aquaculture and extending them...
Community climate commons for collective climate action
Nässén, N., M. Lilja, S. Sjöberg, and J. Colding. 2024. Community climate commons for collective climate action. Sustainable Development https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.3227.
Mitigating and adapting to climate change is a vital challenge that cannot rely solely on technology or macro policies but need also be tailored to local social and ecological contexts. As theory suggests, institutional designs that increase collective climate action could potentially speed up climate action in society. In this article we explore the concept of ‘community climate commons’ (CCCs) to foster interconnected and holistic...
Training caretakers to clean community wells is a highly cost-effective way to reduce exposure to coliform bacteria
Habib, M.A., S. Cocciolo, M.M.A. Raihan, P. Bhattacharya, and A. Tompsett. 2024. Training caretakers to clean community wells is a highly cost-effective way to reduce exposure to coliform bacteria. npj Clean Water 7(1):110.
Existing strategies for improving global access to safe drinking water have met only limited success. We consider an unglamorous and often neglected dimension of drinking water infrastructure provision: cleaning. We randomly assigned caretakers of community wells to participate in a training workshop about how to clean wells. Thirteen to seventeen months later, wells with caretakers assigned to receive training have negligible rates of contamination with Escherichia...
A cautious approach to subsidies for environmental sustainability
Segerson, K., S. Polasky, M. Scheffer, R. Sumaila, J.-C. Cardenas, K. Nyborg, E. P. Fenichel, J. M. Anderies, S. Barrett, E. M. Bennett, S. R. Carpenter, B. Crona, G. Daily, A. de Zeeuw, J. Fischer, C. Folke, N. Kautsky, C. Kremen, S. A. Levin, T. Lindahl, M. Pinsky, A. Tavoni, B. Walker, and E. U. Weber. 2024. A cautious approach to subsidies for environmental sustainability. Science 386(6717).
Tackling climate change and biodiversity loss will require government policies to reverse environmental destruction and align economic activity with sustainability goals. Subsidy-based policies feature prominently in current national and international policy discussions about ways to address these challenges. Given this, now is a critical moment to reassess the role of subsidies to ensure that not only their benefits but also their potential drawbacks are at...
Malin Falkenmark: water pioneer who coined the notion of water crowding and coloured the water cycle
Rockström, J., L. Wang-Erlandsson, C. Folke, D. Gerten, L. J. Gordon, and P. W. Keys. 2024. Malin Falkenmark: water pioneer who coined the notion of water crowding and coloured the water cycle. Ambio 53:657-663.
“Water is the bloodstream of the biosphere” is a wise insight coined by Professor Malin Falkenmark, a world-leading international hydrologist, who passed away on 3 December 2023, at the age of 98 years . Falkenmark was a scientific visionary, calling for global water stewardship as a fundamental step towards human development, even before modern thinking on sustainable development was established through the 1987 Brundtland Commission...
