Mimi E Lam
Biographic Data
| ID | 1572381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mimi E Lam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mimi E |
| FAMILY NAME | Lam |
| SIGNATURE | LAM M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2399-9809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A “Turtle Model” of Food System Transformations
We explore the challenges and opportunities of transitioning towards sustainable food systems through the lens of democratic food governance to foster inclusive and systemic transformation. Drawing on the concepts of wicked problems and systems thinking, this paper develops a conceptual theory of change represented as a ́turtle model ́ that embraces the diversity of citizens ́ values, identities, and knowledge to highlight multiple avenues of tra…
United by the global Covid-19 pandemic
The rapidly evolving landscape of the global COVID-19 pandemic necessitates urgent scientific advances and adaptive behavioural and policy responses to contain viral transmission, reduce impacts on public health, and minimise societal disruption. Epidemiological models of SARS-CoV-2 transmission are heavily influencing policy responses, forecasting viral infection, transmission, and death rates under simplified representations of human behaviour.…
The Ethics and Sustainability of Capture Fisheries and Aquaculture
Fish Commoditization
The impacts of early fishing on aquatic ecosystems were minimal, as primitive technologies were used to harvest fish primarily for food. As fishing technology grew more sophisticated and human populations dispersed and expanded, local economies transitioned from subsistence to barter and trade. Expanded trade networks and mercantilization led to surplus catches becoming tradable commodities. Today, global export fish commodities, including fresh,…
The ethical dimensions of fisheries
Of Fish and Fishermen
If reasonable fishery harvests and environmental harms are specified in new regulations, policies, and laws governing the exploitation of fish for food and livelihoods, then societal baselines can shift to achieve sustainable fisheries and marine conservation. Fisheries regulations can limit the environmental and social costs or harms caused by fishing by requiring the fishing industry to pay for the privilege to fish, via access fees for the opp…
The Privilege to Fish
INTRODUCTION Fisheries management has failed to stop overfishing. Private individuals and enterprises that use public fishery resources are subject to legal obligations and harvest rules, though these regulations are often poorly enforced. The privilege to fish is commonly perceived as a right to fish, which has serious consequences for the sustainability of target fish species and conservation of marine resources. To mitigate the collective huma…
Who is Right to Fish? Evolving a Social Contract for Ethical Fisheries
Most debates on government fisheries management, focusing on dramatic fishery collapses, have skirted the ethical dimension implicit in the exploitation, for private gain, of fishery resources that are publicly owned. The privilege to fish, a conditional right often nefariously perceived as a legislated "right," implies ethical responsibilities linked to marine stewardship. To date, however, granting this privilege to fish has not been legally te…
Fishful Thinking
Fisheries science and management have been shrouded in controversy and rhetoric for over 125 yrs. Human reliance on fish through history (and even prehistory) has impacted the sea and its resources. Global impacts are manifest today in threatened food security and vulnerable marine ecosystems. Growing consumer demand and subsidized industrial fisheries exacerbate ecosystem degradation, climate change, global inequities, and local poverty. Ten com…
Evolutionary Universal Aesthetics in Ecological Rationality
We contend that individual reactions to universal aesthetics were critical in adapting human brain structure and evolutionary cognition. Emotional responses to aesthetics and reflexive judgments by prehistoric people may have evolved an ecological rationality with intimate pragmatics of survival. In North American Pacific Northwest ecosystems, complex indigenous societies flourished for millennia, developing strategies that allowed them to co-ada…
The ethical dimensions of fisheries
Fishful Thinking
Fisheries science and management have been shrouded in controversy and rhetoric for over 125 yrs. Human reliance on fish through history (and even prehistory) has impacted the sea and its resources. Global impacts are manifest today in threatened food security and vulnerable marine ecosystems. Growing consumer demand and subsidized industrial fisheries exacerbate ecosystem degradation, climate change, global inequities, and local poverty. Ten com…
Evolutionary Universal Aesthetics in Ecological Rationality
We contend that individual reactions to universal aesthetics were critical in adapting human brain structure and evolutionary cognition. Emotional responses to aesthetics and reflexive judgments by prehistoric people may have evolved an ecological rationality with intimate pragmatics of survival. In North American Pacific Northwest ecosystems, complex indigenous societies flourished for millennia, developing strategies that allowed them to co-ada…
Who is Right to Fish? Evolving a Social Contract for Ethical Fisheries
Most debates on government fisheries management, focusing on dramatic fishery collapses, have skirted the ethical dimension implicit in the exploitation, for private gain, of fishery resources that are publicly owned. The privilege to fish, a conditional right often nefariously perceived as a legislated "right," implies ethical responsibilities linked to marine stewardship. To date, however, granting this privilege to fish has not been legally te…
Fishful Thinking
Fisheries science and management have been shrouded in controversy and rhetoric for over 125 yrs. Human reliance on fish through history (and even prehistory) has impacted the sea and its resources. Global impacts are manifest today in threatened food security and vulnerable marine ecosystems. Growing consumer demand and subsidized industrial fisheries exacerbate ecosystem degradation, climate change, global inequities, and local poverty. Ten com…
Fish Commoditization
The impacts of early fishing on aquatic ecosystems were minimal, as primitive technologies were used to harvest fish primarily for food. As fishing technology grew more sophisticated and human populations dispersed and expanded, local economies transitioned from subsistence to barter and trade. Expanded trade networks and mercantilization led to surplus catches becoming tradable commodities. Today, global export fish commodities, including fresh,…
The ethical dimensions of fisheries
Of Fish and Fishermen
If reasonable fishery harvests and environmental harms are specified in new regulations, policies, and laws governing the exploitation of fish for food and livelihoods, then societal baselines can shift to achieve sustainable fisheries and marine conservation. Fisheries regulations can limit the environmental and social costs or harms caused by fishing by requiring the fishing industry to pay for the privilege to fish, via access fees for the opp…
The Privilege to Fish
INTRODUCTION Fisheries management has failed to stop overfishing. Private individuals and enterprises that use public fishery resources are subject to legal obligations and harvest rules, though these regulations are often poorly enforced. The privilege to fish is commonly perceived as a right to fish, which has serious consequences for the sustainability of target fish species and conservation of marine resources. To mitigate the collective huma…
The Ethics and Sustainability of Capture Fisheries and Aquaculture
United by the global Covid-19 pandemic
The rapidly evolving landscape of the global COVID-19 pandemic necessitates urgent scientific advances and adaptive behavioural and policy responses to contain viral transmission, reduce impacts on public health, and minimise societal disruption. Epidemiological models of SARS-CoV-2 transmission are heavily influencing policy responses, forecasting viral infection, transmission, and death rates under simplified representations of human behaviour.…
A “Turtle Model” of Food System Transformations
We explore the challenges and opportunities of transitioning towards sustainable food systems through the lens of democratic food governance to foster inclusive and systemic transformation. Drawing on the concepts of wicked problems and systems thinking, this paper develops a conceptual theory of change represented as a ́turtle model ́ that embraces the diversity of citizens ́ values, identities, and knowledge to highlight multiple avenues of tra…
Biology (6 works) · Fishery (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Fish (5 works) · Marine and fisheries research (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (4 works) · Ecology (4 works)