Postdoc Emily Klein Co-Authors Paper on ‘Blue Growth’ in Fish and Fisheries

Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper on historical lessons for the future implementation of “blue growth” strategies, a concept that aims to promote growth in ocean economies while managing marine systems.

The paper, titled “Something old, something new: Historical perspectives provide lessons for blue growth agendas” was published in the journal Fish and Fisheries. It leveraged 20 case studies in 13 countries spanning the past 800 years to assess examples of successful blue growth in fisheries and aquaculture. The authors identified 14 cross-cutting lessons and 10 recommendations to improve understanding and implementation of current blue growth agendas put forth by the European Union and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Read the paper here.

At the Pardee Center, Klein leads the Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) project with Prof. Les Kaufman. The CHANS project investigates how governance, social, and economic systems are intricately connected to natural systems, how we can better explore those connections, and how to better understand the trade-offs that confront those making resource management decisions.