By using visual communication as a language, art students have created works that provide new entrances to complex research. With design, imagination and humour their works evoke visitor’s curiosity and reflections around different angles of sustainability. The eight works in the exhibition are based on the interdisciplinary, international research project Inequality and the Biosphere, which is led by researchers from the Beijer Institute and the…
Tag: Patrik Henriksson
Freshwater aquaculture is key for global food security
Freshwater aquaculture dominates global aquaculture production, but its importance is often overlooked in global food-policy agenda and research. A new article published in Nature argue that recent research underestimates the production potential for freshwater aquaculture and inflates the importance of mariculture, or saltwater aquaculture, at the expense of consumers in low- and middle income countries. Since the 1980’s marine and inland fishing have grown very…
Closing performance gaps in aquaculture
Producing more healthy food for all and doing it more sustainably are two of the most pressing challenges the world faces. Aquatic foods can be an important piece of this puzzle, but so far too much focus has been on solutions benefitting the 16% living in high-income countries, researchers claim in a recent article. They want to turn the spotlight to the performance gap in…
Time for a blue food revolution
An unprecedented review of the aquatic foods sector uncovers how fisheries and aquaculture can play a greater role in delivering healthy diets and more sustainable, equitable and resilient food systems around the world. It finds that fish, shellfish and algae offer untapped potential for global development if the right policies and investments are put in place. Five peer-reviewed papers, published in Nature journals as part…
New grants to realise the Sustainable Development Goals
Several researchers at the Beijer Institute together with colleagues from its partners Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere (GEDB) and Stockholm Resilience Centre, were among the successful applicants to receive funding for projects designed to create research aimed at achieving the UN’s global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The call Realising the Sustainable Development Goals from the Swedish research council Formas, received a total of 174…
Three things needed to curb microbial resistance
Three areas need to be prioritised in food and health systems in order to reduce the dependence on antibiotics and pesticides and curb resistance, according to a new study. We have to change our norms and perceptions around use, diversify food production and health practises, and support collective action institutions. Like pandemics, resistance to antibiotics and pesticides knows no boundaries. Unsustainable practices in food and…
A new seafood narrative
Seafood sustainability is still only marginally considered in global policy talks on food production, trade and consumption. That needs to change, according to new research. The discourse around sustainable seafood practices, where aquaculture plays a central role, started in the 1990s, but seafood still remains poorly integrated into food policy and research. A new article in the journal Global Environmental Change, co-authored by Beijer researchers…
Patrik Henriksson
Patrik Henriksson’s background is in marine biology and he now primarily works on evaluating aquaculture products using life cycle assessment (LCA), positioning seafood in the global food portfolio, and antimicrobial use in aquaculture. Patrik is currently working as a researcher between the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm Resilience Centre, and WorldFish. He earned his PhD from Leiden University in Leiden, evaluating the environmental consequences…
Exhibition: Welcome to the Biosphere
Beijer Institute and Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) researchers contribute to biosphere exhibition at Stockholm interior design store Svenskt Tenn. The exhibition, called Welcome to the Biosphere, is a collection of artistic interpretations of issues regarding our relationship to the Biosphere, the thin layer around the Earth where we live, which supports human existence. It deals with the complex relationship between climate change, norms, ethics and…
Design students visualise our dependency on nature’s services
In the exhibition In My Backyard at the design store Svenskt Tenn in Stockholm, students in Visual Communication at Beckmans School of Design interpret the research carried out by the Beijer Institute on ecosystem services and their crucial role for sustainable social development. Research more easily accessible through visual communication A common aim for the students was to create a broader understanding of ecosystem services…
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function twentynineteen_the_posts_navigation()
in /storage/content/64/156064/beijer.kva.se/public_html/wp-content/themes/beijer/archive.php on line 42
Call stack:
include()
wp-includes/template-loader.php:106require_once()
wp-blog-header.php:19require()
index.php:17