Resilient or environmentally friendly? Both are possible when seafood businesses prepare for long-term risks
Resilient or environmentally friendly? Both are possible when seafood businesses prepare for long-term risks
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137045
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发表时间：
2023-04-19
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Sharmina, Maria
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作者：
Clair, Rebecca St.;Pappas, Dimitrios;Sharmina, Maria
为了确保子孙后代可持续的海鲜生产，海鲜企业必须能够应对未来的冲击和压力。最近的研究表明，通过加强与循环经济原则的协调，例如消除浪费和再生自然环境，海鲜公司可能能够提高其总体弹性（即对不可预见的破坏的弹性）。本文介绍的研究通过对英国海鲜企业的调查和研讨会，实证探讨了循环经济、风险缓解和复原力之间的潜在联系。我们发现，参与我们研究的许多海鲜公司正在积极实施一系列循环经济行动，例如回收材料和尽量减少一次性塑料的使用。在识别特定风险时，企业倾向于采取短期缓解措施，但与长期措施相比，这些措施不太可能符合循环经济原则。虽然企业对自己适应和生存未来风险的能力充满信心，但关注短期风险缓解可能会降低他们规划长期风险的能力。无法识别和应对长期风险也可能会阻碍企业提高抵御不可预见的干扰的能力，并使企业陷入被动的风险缓解周期，而不是能力建设周期。
To ensure sustainable seafood production for future generations, seafood businesses must be resilient in the face of future shocks and stresses. Recent research suggests that by increasing alignment with principles of circular economy such as eliminating waste and regenerating natural environments, seafood companies may be able to improve their general resilience (i.e. resilience to unforeseen disruptions). Research presented here empirically explores potential links between circular economy, risk mitigation and resilience through a survey and work-shops with seafood businesses in the United Kingdom. We found that many of the seafood companies partici-pating in our research are actively implementing a range of circular economy actions such as recycling materials and minimising the use of single-use plastics. When identifying specific risks, businesses tended to adopt short-term mitigation measures that were less likely than longer-term measures to be aligned with circular economy principles. While businesses felt confident about their ability to adapt to and survive future risks, a focus on short-term risk mitigation might reduce their capacity to plan for longer-term risks. An inability to identify and prepare for longer-term risks may also impede businesses' ability to increase their resilience to unforeseen disruptions and lock companies into a reactive, rather than a capacity-building cycle of risk mitigation.