Ecosystem-based marine governance – We need to include the market perspective

Cecilia Solér, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Business Administration, at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, gives a Sea and Society Talk about Ecosystem-based marine governance, including market actors, recognizes a variety of interactions within an ecosystem including human activity, rather than mainly focusing on specific species, or ecosystem services in isolation.

ABOUT THE TALK
To this day, research on ecosystem-based marine governance has been dominated by the natural science, economic, political, and legal perspectives. Adding the market perspective on ecosystem-based marine governance helps in analyzing marine environment challenges from the perspective of what market actors such as consumers, producers, distributors, politicians etc, do. Including the market perspective helps us understand how important and complex marine governance challenges are shaped by market actors in a regulatory setting.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Cecilia Solér is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Business Administration, at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on socio-economic and cultural consequences of ecosystem-based marine management and how consumer culture and marketing practices shape consumption. She is also interested in how competing sustainability certifications influence exchange on the global market and simultaneously have an impact on environmental protection and social justice in production.

ABOUT SEA AND SOCIETY TALKS
Centre for Sea and Society have a lunch seminar series focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The seminars link goal 14 "Life below water" with the other 16 goals.