The Sounds of Science
Orchestrating Stewardship in the Seafood Industry
- 1st Edition - July 26, 2023
- Editor: Henrik Österblom
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 2 6 7 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 2 6 8 - 9
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Request a sales quoteThe Sounds of Science provides a comprehensive account of a large-scale scientific experiment with globally operating seafood corporations headquartered in North America, Europe, and Asia. It describes how scientists worked to identify these, world’s largest seafood companies, and how their disproportionate powers were mobilized in a coalition of companies called SeaBOS (Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship), aiming to provide global and science-based industry leadership on ocean stewardship.
As invoked by the cover art (Flow, 2020) by world-renowned creative director, Kashiwa Sato, the experiment is creating a small wave of change that sits within a larger wave, supporting and generating larger movements towards improved stewardship of the planet. A new direction for the private sector is emerging, and new priorities are flourishing. The book explores how corporations, guided by science, can be part of the solution to the biosphere challenges.
Written in collaboration with international experts on sustainability, ocean ecosystems, fisheries policy, and corporations, this book explores the mechanisms leading to the evolution of cooperation, and the barriers to address in order to engage in collaborative learning, corporate change and novel science. It offers tangible advice to scientists on how to work with the private sector for a better, more sustainable world.
The Sounds of Science is an important resource for scientists interested in engaging with the private sector. Corporate leaders and policy makers will find this book useful for understanding, collaborating, and working with the planet to reach global sustainability goals.
- Details the origin, developments, and effects of SeaBOS (Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship)
- Offers workable solutions and out-of-the-box thinking for university scientists, chief executives and corporate
sustainability experts - Provides insight on tools, conditions, and navigation techniques for cooperation across cultures
- Includes insider and personal perspectives of developing and nurturing relationships between ocean scientists
and corporate leaders
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the author
- Preface
- Soundtracks
- Sidetracks
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: A science of hope
- Chapter 1: My background
- Abstract
- 1: Old guy, gold watch, and new potatoes
- 2: The Anthropocene—Are we stuck here and is it all bad?
- 3: From subsistence, users and local impacts to global actors on an interconnected planet
- 4: The emergence, growth, and impacts of global corporations
- 5: Could (and should) scientists try to create a better world?
- References
- Chapter 2: The keystone species concept
- Abstract
- 1: A small experiment that gave rise to a big scientific idea
- 2: Can a scientific idea be applied beyond its original discipline?
- 3: How monitoring influences human behavior
- 4: How rules govern expectations and motivate compliance
- 5: Defining the scientific method
- The importance of experimentation
- 6: Would a big experiment necessarily represent a bad idea?
- References
- Chapter 3: Evolution of cooperation
- Abstract
- 1: Human interactions and expectations: The Prisoner’s dilemma
- 2: We come in peace—The importance of signaling honest intent
- 3: Sustainability requires an expanded scientific perspective across academic disciplines
- 4: A carefully planned and curated first dialogue—Planting our feet firmly in the sand
- 5: Systems insiders and connectors provide access to information and networks
- 6: The importance of learning about corporate cultures
- 7: The end of the beginning—And why it took forever to get Here
- References
- Part II: What is change?
- Chapter 4: From seedling to first harvest
- Abstract
- 1: Scientists and our different theories of change
- 2: Another detour to get to the desired destination
- 3: An increase in complexity and capacity when the real work starts
- 4: The slow train to progress—From compliance to conviction
- 5: Mobilizing external expectations and informal social pressure for change
- 6: Tangible results 1.0
- References
- Chapter 5: Risk, power, and global capitalism
- Abstract
- 1: Accepting existential risks for scientist and their institutions
- 2: Monitoring—How to track progress and reduce the most obvious risks
- 3: A surprise power grab—How we realized our own agency
- 4: Corporations may not be a dead end—Contrary to popular belief
- 5: Hang on to the dream, because there is reason to believe
- 6: Some advice if you have gotten this far and are considering giving up
- References
- Chapter 6: Facing setbacks and navigating new realities
- Abstract
- 1: Limited recharge—The importance of recovery for personal resilience
- 2: Too much (but possibly necessary) traveling
- 3: Finding the time to reconnect to science
- 4: Tangible result 1.1
- 5: Soaring, hard landing, running, and swimming against the waves—Birds and the brutality of life
- 6: Gold watch vanity—A reflection on changing identity and individual goals
- References
- Part III: Return of the science
- Chapter 7: Hope in the dark
- Abstract
- 1: A new social contract—The role of science in society
- 2: How COVID-19 made us efficient, inclusive, and exhausted
- 3: Theories of change revisited—How does our experiment add value?
- 4: Gaining momentum toward the vision of transformative change
- 5: Losing momentum—Because maybe all this is simply too hard?
- 6: Tangible results 2.0—When the dynamics shift in the desired direction
- 7: Show me the data
- References
- Chapter 8: Science for a better world
- Abstract
- 1: New hope for the next decade—What did we learn from all of this?
- 2: Critical obstacles and simple mistakes when science interacts with business
- 3: Frustrations, concerns, and surprises when business representatives interact with scientists
- 4: Key insights from scientists
- 5: Tools, enabling conditions, barriers, and how to navigate this in practice
- 6: Science and activism
- References
- Chapter 9: Push the sky away
- Abstract
- 1: Systemic change is possible, but what is the system?
- 2: Heroes and role models
- 3: Dance like you mean it
- References
- Conclusion
- Index
- No. of pages: 280
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 26, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443152672
- eBook ISBN: 9780443152689
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