Robert Blasiak

Biographic Data

ID6225179
NAMERobert Blasiak
GIVEN NAMESRobert
FAMILY NAMEBlasiak
SIGNATUREBLASIAK R
AFFILIATIONSStockholm Resilience Centre
ORCID0000-0002-0888-0159
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Exploring evidence of cascading change towards stewardship in the Japanese seafood industry

    Open AccessShun Kageyama, Madlen Sobkowiak et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2025

    There is a growing global demand for a more sustainable seafood industry, and pre-competitive initiatives have emerged on multiple continents to meet this demand. Such initiatives could have “cascading effects,” suggesting that their impacts may extend beyond their direct participants to effect broader, industry-wide change. To date, little research has been conducted to determine whether pre-competitive initiatives are triggering such cascading …

  • Identifying and closing gaps in corporate reporting of ocean impacts

    Open AccessJean‐baptiste Jouffray, John Virdin et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2025References: 5

    As ocean industrialization accelerates, corporate transparency is increasingly seen as critical to improve governance, yet little is known about how firms disclose their impacts on marine ecosystems. This study addresses that gap through a content analysis of sustainability and annual reports from 75 of the largest companies across 8 sectors of the ocean economy. We examine which impacts are reported, how they are measured and whether firms set r…

  • Growing prominence of deep-sea life in marine bioprospecting

    Open AccessErik Zhivkoplias, Jean‐baptiste Jouffray et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2024Cited by: 1

    Marine bioprospecting, which involves the exploration of genetic and biochemical material from marine organisms, can be used towards addressing a broad range of public and environmental health applications such as disease treatment, diagnostics and bioremediation. Marine genetic resources are important reservoirs for such bioprospecting efforts; however, the extent to which they are used commercially for natural product discovery and the marine s…

  • The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace

    Open AccessRobert Blasiak, Jean‐baptiste Jouffray et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2023References: 8

    The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021–2030 (the ‘Ocean Decade’) is poised to stimulate new cooperation for ocean science, but makes no mention of conflict or peace. We contend that this is a missed opportunity, and use an environmental peacebuilding typology to review how ocean science has historically contributed to peace. Such considerations are timely in the context of an increasingly complex and multidime…

  • The lure of novel biological and chemical entities in food-system transformations

    Open AccessPeter Søgaard Jørgensen, Daniel Itzamna Avila-Ortega et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022

    Synthetic chemicals and biologically engineered materials are major forces in today's food systems, but they are also major drivers of the global environmental changes and health challenges that characterize the Anthropocene. To address these challenges, we will need to increase assessment activity, promote alternative production practices with less reliance on such technologies, and regulate social campaigns and experiments

  • Voluntary commitments made by the world’s largest companies focus on recycling and packaging over other actions to address the plastics crisis

    Open AccessZoie Diana, Kelly Reilly et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022

  • Ocean conservation boosts climate change mitigation and adaptation

    Open AccessJuliette Jacquemont, Robert Blasiak et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022

  • Informed selfishness – Practical reflections on building a sustainable ocean economy

    Open AccessKwasi Appeaning Addo, Olanike Kudirat Adeyemo et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2021

  • Science-Industry Collaboration

    Open AccessHenrik Österblom, Christopher Cvitanovic et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

    There is substantial and unexplored potential for scientists to engage with the private sector for a sustainable ocean. The importance of such cooperation is a frequent emphasis of international dialogues and statements, it is embedded within the Sustainable Development Goals, and has been championed by prominent business leaders and scientists. But an uncritical embrace of science-industry collaboration is unhelpful, and candid reflections on th…

  • The Blue Acceleration

    Open AccessJean‐baptiste Jouffray, Robert Blasiak et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

    Does humanity's future lie in the ocean? As demand for resources continues to grow and land-based sources decline, expectations for the ocean as an engine of human development are increasing. Claiming marine resources and space is not new to humanity, but the extent, intensity, and diversity of today's aspirations are unprecedented. We describe this as the blue acceleration—a race among diverse and often competing interests for ocean food, materi…

  • The ocean genome and future prospects for conservation and equity

    Open AccessRobert Blasiak, Rachel Wynberg et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 2References: 2

    Life has evolved in the ocean for 3.7 billion years, resulting in a rich ‘ocean genome’, the ensemble of genetic material present in all marine biodiversity, including both the physical genes and the information they encode. Rapid advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatics have enabled exploration of the ocean genome and are informing innovative approaches to conservation and a growing number of commercial biotechnology applications. …

  • Global patterns of fisheries conflict

    Open AccessJos Spijkers, Jessica Spijkers et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2019Cited by: 8References: 5

  • Displacement, diffusion and intensification (DDI) in marine fisheries

    Open AccessRobert Blasiak, Christopher N H Doll et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2015References: 1