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Ecosystem service offsets and aquaculture: determining equivalence and acceptability of environmental and social impacts and benefits

17 Sep 2017
Offered by: University of Tasmania
Scholarship funds: PhD program

Scholarship description

Supervision Team:
Dr Emily Ogier
Associate Professor Catriona Macleod
Dr Dugald Tinch
Dr Karen Alexander
The concept of offsets, though well developed and applied in terrestrial resource-based and energy sectors, has not been tested in marine-based aquaculture. This project examines the applicability of offsets as an instrument to achieve optimal social, economic and environmental returns from marine ecosystem services from marine-based aquaculture activity. Using a case study of Integrated Multi Tropic Aquaculture in Tasmania, this project will develop and test ecological, economic as well as social criteria for determining the equivalence and acceptability of impacts and benefits generated by proposed offsets. It will compare the outcomes of combinations of public policy settings and proposed offset strategies in order to inform both marine spatial planning and ecosystem-based management processes, and models of sustainable and socially-supported aquaculture production.

Scholarship location:Australia

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Source: UTAS.EDU.AU

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