Societal Interactions

Along with understanding aquaculture environment interactions, in recent years, our team has been involved in several research projects aimed at improving our understanding of the broader social and economic interactions of aquaculture and their interplay with environmental interactions and other marine resource-based industries.  

Understanding how the community values our marine and coastal ecosystems helps industry, managers and local communities better appreciate how changes to aquaculture management might impact these values. 

Although societal interactions are a more minor focus for our team, some of the outputs of our work in this space include:  

• The Your Marine Values project report 
• The Determinates of socially-supported wild-catch and aquaculture fisheries in Australia full project report 
• Dr Karen Alexander's book ‘Conflicts over Marine and Coastal Common Resources: Causes, Governance and Prevention’ published by Routledge Earthscan Oceans (2019) 

For a deeper exploration of how aquaculture interacts with other industries, community values and the environment, see the following resources: 

• Tasmania’s Marine Atlas: collates and visually presents social, cultural, environmental, ecological and administrative data relevant to Tasmania’s marine environment 
• Centre for Marine Socioecology: is a collaboration between IMAS and CSIRO (with support from AAD) which brings together expertise in physics, law, economics, biology, sociology, psychology, human health, art, media, philosophy and government to better understand and manage Australia’s oceans