Enclosing Salmon: Social-Ecological Resilience and Salmon Aquaculture in Japan
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20K12303
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 64060:Environmental policy and social systems-related
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
伊藤 毅 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (10646863)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
渡邉 剛弘 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 准教授 (50439337)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | Ecology and society / Salmon aquaculture / Social institutions / Socionatures / Climate change / Adaptation / Ecology and Society / Social Institutions / Resilience / Salmon Aquaculture / Climate Change / Sustainability / Social-Ecological System / Salmon / Environmental Governance |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This research examines the rapidly developing aquaculture of salmon and its impacts on Japans society and environment. While the bulk of previous studies have focused on cost efficiency, little has been studied about the social and ecological implications of salmon aquaculture. We see aquaculture as a socio-economic enterprise that disconnects salmon from their native ecology through the technology of enclosures. By employing SES analysis, we investigate how the enclosure of a particular species influence the resilience and sustainability of existing ecological systems.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In 2023 (final year of research), PI and Co-PI work on the three main areas. First, we completed writing one journal article which explores the transformation of the Kushiro River from a living organism to a water infrastructure designed to facilitate state formation from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century. The article was accepted and is scheduled to be published with the International Journal of Asian Studies (Cambridge). Second, we also conducted four semi-structured interviews (three in Japan and one in the US) with key individuals and organizations in the salmon aquaculture industry. Some of the interviews will be transcribed and published on our website. Third, building on this, we began to write one article on the interactions of social-ecological relations through the lens of salmon in the Kushiro River basin. It examines the ways in which competition and collaboration among various actors and actants over control of water and salmon have transformed the Kushiro River basin (i.e., the expansion of human settlements from the coast to inland areas, building of water and land infrastructures, reengineering and rechanneling of river and tributary courses, and construction of levees, weirs and hatcheries among others. It will be included in an edited volume).
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