Sam Bush
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 707135 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sam Bush |
| NOMBRES | Sam |
| APELLIDO | Bush |
| FIRMA | BUSH S |
| AFILIACIONES | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6689-2246 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 209 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Sedimentary fixations
The Wadden Sea and its islands are characterized by their mobility, which people have been living with and struggling against since the islands were formed. This paper identifies the ways in which ontological land/sea and human/nature borders shape how human and more-than-human mobilities are governed on the Wadden Islands. Governance frameworks in coastal sandscapes (re)affirm these ontological borders materially and conceptually through physica…
Practices of knowledge pluralization
Participatory guarantee systems (PGS) are gaining increasing popularity as a form of organic certification, in part due to their potential to enhance knowledge exchange among farmers. However, the ways in which farmers produce and exchange knowledge in PGS has received limited attention. Gaining insight into these dynamics is essential to understanding PGS's potential to integrate farmers' knowledge into certification. In this paper, we apply a s…
More-than-human practices in wild animal farming
In Northeastern China, forest frog farming has emerged as an important means of livelihood diversification and rural revitalization. This study examines how forest frog breeding practices have come under pressure following the post-COVID reclassification of frogs from “terrestrial” to “aquatic” species – a move that allowed the trade of economically valuable frog species to continue despite a broader wildlife consumption ban. Drawing on fieldwork…
Governing through inscription
The planned expansion of wind energy in the North Sea holds significant implications for marine biodiversity. Wind energy infrastructure can enhance biodiversity by providing hard substrates and reef-like habitats or degrade it by disturbing existing benthic habitat. However, it remains unclear what kinds of biodiversity will in practice be enhanced, in whose interest and for what purpose. To assess the effects of offshore wind energy parks on bi…
Urban wind energy futures in the making
This paper examines how alternative wind energy futures emerge in processes of implementing innovative wind energy projects in cities. Although future-making is central to energy transitions, the socio-material processes through which futures come into being are often only considered implicitly in futures studies. We analyse three cases of small-scale urban wind energy projects underpinned by visions of urban wind energy. In doing so, we examine …
Navigating ‘mobility regimes’ through land-sea patron-client networks
Examines how Fante transboundary shark fishery mobilities are maintained in the context of emerging regulation and environmental change. • Fisheries, conservation, and border regulations function as an interconnected land-sea mobility regime. • Shows how patron-client relations enable navigation of strict fisheries, conservation, and border regulations. • Identifies patronage networks as a counter-mobility regime. • Contributes to debates on mobi…
Competition or collaboration? EU and Chinese engagement with aquaculture sustainability in Africa
Governing biodiversity through offshore wind park tenders
As the construction of offshore wind parks expand globally, questions are being raised about their impacts on marine biodiversity. To mitigate these impacts, countries are embedding biodiversity conservation and restoration within their offshore wind tendering process. These tenders not only determine the technical design of offshore wind parks but also coordinate decisions on what kinds of biodiversity to conserve, enhance and/or restore. Using …
Governing food systems to conserve China’s endangered wild animals
Inclusive intent, instrumental outcomes
This paper examines the motivations driving stakeholder participation in 20 Solar Power Plant (SPP) projects in Gelderland, the Netherlands. Using a framework for participation rationales, we analyse how SPP developers' normative (strengthening democracy), substantive (improving the quality of decisions), and instrumental (efficiency-driven) motivations shape their design and practice of public participation. By comparing participation policies w…
Federating ‘Aquaculture 4.0’ for data-driven social and environmental sustainability
Aquaculture is undergoing a revolution of data-driven innovation. The rapid uptake of digital technologies in the sector contributes ever larger amounts of data that hold potential for improving decision making for aquatic food system sustainability. Realising the potential of digital tools and new data streams is, however, not inevitable. The current ecosystem of global and production-level digital aquaculture technologies and platforms is highl…
Countering salmon farming expansion
Promoted by the state, and national and international companies, salmon farming has spread to the south of Chile over the last three decades. This expansion has been resisted by local groups as social and environmental impacts in expanded territories of production and processing have been identified. Informed by a counter-territorialisation and network theory lens, we analyse how strategies by the state and national and international companies to…
Digital sustainability assurance governing global value chains
Sustainability risks in aquaculture are increasingly addressed through forms of assurance that rely on the use of digital technologies. By bringing in new actors and informational processes, these forms of digital sustainability assurance challenge existing notions of how global value chains are governed. Based on in‐depth interviews with experts, we find that the growing use of digital technologies to mediate assurance is shaped by the digital c…
Changing fish trade practices in Myanmar's rapidly transforming food system
Wholesale markets, wholesalers, and processors play critical but underappreciated roles in shaping food systems. Most conventional research on food provisioning analyzes value chains in terms of their structure, conduct, and performance. We contend that a practices lens can illuminate how food systems are produced and reproduced through the emergence of new wholesale practices relating to quality, trust, and risk, and provide more nuanced underst…
Enhancing institutional capacity in a centralized state
This article uses an institutional capacity framework to assess the interplay between the macro level institutional environment in the form of the centralized Vietnamese state, and the meso level institutional capacity of three different industrial zones to develop technological water use efficiency strategies. Our results show that the relational, knowledge, and mobilization capacities of these industrial zones are constrained by the centralized…
Aquaculture governance
Shallow fixes and deep reasonings
The need for urgent, structural transformations to dominant food systems is increasingly recognized in research and policy. The direction these transformations take is in great part influenced by how the problem is framed and what future pathways become seen as plausible and desirable. Scientific knowledge and the organizations producing it hold considerable authority in suggesting what alternatives are or are not worth pursuing, ultimately shapi…
Information practices for improved sustainability assurance in Vietnamese shrimp aquaculture
This paper explores the performance and embeddedness of information practices performed by smallholder farmers in Vietnamese shrimp aquaculture in response to private sustainability interventions. Using a social practice intervention framework, we analyse how existing information practices embedded in the wider social lives of farmers are affected by the adoption of both analogue and digital reporting methodologies prescribed by the Aquaculture S…
Exclusive Apart, Inclusive as a System
It is often thought that local governments in the Global South have less influence over climate city networks than those from the Global North. We question this by examining how different climate city networks relate and function as interconnected, yet independent, decision-making centers. We explore the extent to which this polycentric system overcomes the assumed exclusivity and inequality of these networks. We analyze twenty-two climate city n…
Unpacking the heterogeneity of climate city networks
In recent decades, climate city networks, understood as formalized subnational governance networks that have climate change as their focus, have emerged, linking cities to the global climate governance regime and helping them to take climate action locally. Such city networks are considered an essential aspect of urban climate policy and governance. Scholarship on climate city networks has illustrated that such networks can no longer be understoo…
A 20-year retrospective review of global aquaculture
Assuring aquaculture sustainability beyond the farm
This paper explores the emergence of forms of ‘beyond farm’ assurance in the aquaculture sector, designed to increase the inclusion of smallholders and scale up environmental sustainability. The analysis reveals a ‘spectrum of assurance’, representing contrasting levels of trust in sustainable production and consumption. At one end of this spectrum attempts emerge to foster self-determined assurance models with internal verification that represen…
Digitalizing environmental governance for smallholder participation in food systems
Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and remote sensing are increasingly used by public and private actors to improve the participation of smallholders in addressing the environmental challenges of food production. Based on an empirical mapping of 10 digital sustainability initiatives we analyse how digital technologies shape the representations of (un)sustainable production practices, the identification of sustainabil…
Does climate transparency enhance the reflexive capacity of state actors to improve mitigation performance? The case of Indonesia
Using Indonesia's energy sector as case study, we explore the effects of the domestic measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) system as a manifestation of national level climate transparency. We examine the ways in which MRV facilitates state actors' reflexive capacity to recognize, reflect on, and respond to the demand for mitigation-related information emanating from global climate governance processes. Our results show that engagement wi…
Contested mobilities in the maritory
The mobility of nomadic Indigenous people has been systematically constrained over time by states seeking control over peripheral spaces and people. This is evident in the case of the Kawésqar nomadic ‘people of the sea’ who have been subject to a century of attempts by the Chilean state to spatially fix their movements over both their terrestrial territories and marine ‘maritories’. In this paper, we show how Indigenous groups like the Kawésqar …
Contribution of Fisheries and Aquaculture to Food Security and Poverty Reduction
The Missing Link
Commodity chains that once involved a stepwise progression through multiple global, national and local scales are increasingly controlled through new 'spaces' of information and access, beyond the reach of scale-dependent governance regimes such as the state. Thus, to determine the geography of trade, the source and influence of information and the relevance of governance systems which mediate access and control over coastal resources requires an…
Beyond net deficits
Geographers first identified aquaculture as an important field of study during the 1990s, pointing to a 'net deficit' in geographical knowledge about the activity. This paper examines how far geographers have come in bridging this knowledge deficit in the last 20 years. While increasing attention has focused on the political economy of export products consumed in the global North, 'everyday' geographies of aquaculture production and consumption i…
Searching for (un)sustainabilty in pangasius aquaculture
Assembling sustainable territories
The authors show how certification assembles 'sustainable' territories through a complex layering of regulatory authority in which both government and nongovernment entities claim rule-making authority, sometimes working together, sometimes in parallel, sometimes competitively. It is argued that territorialisation is accomplished not just through (re)defining bounded space, but more broadly through the assembling of four elements: space, subjects…
Organic coasts? Regulatory challenges of certifying integrated shrimp–mangrove production systems in Vietnam
Co-production in the wind energy sector
Public concerns surrounding landscape conservation, noise pollution and impacts on bird populations are commonly incorporated into the planning phase of wind energy projects. However, public involvement tends to be highly localized and procedural, aimed at informing local stakeholders and gaining their acceptance for implementation. At the same time, other ways of engaging the public have emerged that move beyond invited stakeholder participation…
Making social sense of aquaculture transitions
Resilience deals explicitly with change and provides a middle ground between the social and the environmental sciences. However, a growing critique by social scientists questions the ability of resilience thinking to adequately examine the social dimensions of change. The question that emerges is how social scientists should engage with resilience. We addressed this question by comparing resilience with agrarian change and transitions theory, thr…
Can Patrons Be Bypassed? Frictions between Local and Global Regulatory Networks over Shrimp Aquaculture in East Kalimantan
Taking related concepts of friction and a simplified value chain analysis, this article focuses on interaction of three regulatory networks and their influence over sustainable shrimp aquaculture in East Kalimantan. The results show that while government and nongovernment organization (NGO) regulatory networks have focused on the standardization of best practices, it is artisanal trade networks, controlled by local patrons (or ponggawa), that hol…
Assembling tuna traceability in Indonesia
Digitalizing environmental governance for smallholder participation in food systems
Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and remote sensing are increasingly used by public and private actors to improve the participation of smallholders in addressing the environmental challenges of food production. Based on an empirical mapping of 10 digital sustainability initiatives we analyse how digital technologies shape the representations of (un)sustainable production practices, the identification of sustainabil…
Digital twinning as an act of governance in the wind energy sector
Digital twins have emerged as novel technology in the wind energy sector that enables the design, monitoring and prediction of wind turbine performance. Despite growing attention on their potential, little is known about how digital twins are designed, by whom and how their design choices affect multiple aspects of decision making in the development of wind energy. Using a framework of co-production, this paper examines digital twins as boundary …
Moving beyond the shrimp farm
Key environmental challenges faced by the aquaculture sector demonstrate that aquaculture production is not isolated from the surrounding environment, and we see a policy shift towards area-based approaches. However, without an understanding of the farmer's perspective, there is a danger of misrepresenting how farm-level practices relate to area-based approaches and to environmental risk management. This paper empirically examines how individual …
Scenarios for Resilient Shrimp Aquaculture in Tropical Coastal Areas
Bush, S. R., P. A. M. van Zwieten, L. Visser, H. Van Dijk, R. Bosma, W. F. De Boer, and M. Verdegem. 2010. Scenarios for resilient shrimp aquaculture in tropical coastal areas. Ecology and Society 15(2): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03331-150215
Digital sustainability assurance governing global value chains
Sustainability risks in aquaculture are increasingly addressed through forms of assurance that rely on the use of digital technologies. By bringing in new actors and informational processes, these forms of digital sustainability assurance challenge existing notions of how global value chains are governed. Based on in‐depth interviews with experts, we find that the growing use of digital technologies to mediate assurance is shaped by the digital c…
Consumption practices in transition
This article explores the reconfigurations of fish consumption practices in Myanmar in a context of rapid urbanization and changing availability of wild and farmed fish. Using a social practice lens, we analyze how everyday fish consumption practices change as people move from the rural Ayeyarwady Delta to Yangon city. We show how these reconfigurations are shaped by new routines in urban areas and the transition from capture fisheries to aquacul…
Inclusive environmental performance through ‘beyond-farm’ aquaculture governance
This paper examines the potential for improved environmental performance of smallholder aquaculture production through ‘beyond-farm’ governance. Smallholder aquaculture farmers face a range of systemic environmental risks related to disease and water quality that extend beyond the boundary of their farms. Yet most governance arrangements aimed at mitigating risks, such as certification, finance and insurance, are focused on the farm-level rather …
Reframing the sustainable seafood narrative
Unpacking the heterogeneity of climate city networks
In recent decades, climate city networks, understood as formalized subnational governance networks that have climate change as their focus, have emerged, linking cities to the global climate governance regime and helping them to take climate action locally. Such city networks are considered an essential aspect of urban climate policy and governance. Scholarship on climate city networks has illustrated that such networks can no longer be understoo…
Domestic Crop Booms, Livelihood Pathways and Nested Transitions
Rapidly transforming Asian food systems are oriented largely towards domestic markets, yet literature on Asian crop booms deals almost exclusively with commodities produced for export. With reference to pangasius aquaculture in Bangladesh, we argue that 'domestic crop booms' - agricultural booms driven by domestic demand - are contributing to rapid social and ecological transformations in Asia and across the globe. We adopt a comparative multi-sc…
Governing in a placeless environment
Countering salmon farming expansion
Promoted by the state, and national and international companies, salmon farming has spread to the south of Chile over the last three decades. This expansion has been resisted by local groups as social and environmental impacts in expanded territories of production and processing have been identified. Informed by a counter-territorialisation and network theory lens, we analyse how strategies by the state and national and international companies to…
Aquaculture governance
Exclusive Apart, Inclusive as a System
It is often thought that local governments in the Global South have less influence over climate city networks than those from the Global North. We question this by examining how different climate city networks relate and function as interconnected, yet independent, decision-making centers. We explore the extent to which this polycentric system overcomes the assumed exclusivity and inequality of these networks. We analyze twenty-two climate city n…
Fisher and Trader Responses to Traceability Interventions in Indonesia
Calls for increased traceability of seafood have been frustrated by a poor understanding of the social dynamics shaping the flow of fish and information in global value chains. Contrasting with utilitarian and regulatory approaches, this article proposes a social practices intervention framework to understand the effect of traceability interventions ensuing from the EU IUU regulation and Fair Trade USA seafood certification program on fishers and…
The Banjo of Ralph Stanley
Scales and Sales
The Siiphandone wetland in Khong district, Champasak province, Lao PDR, is one of the most important fisheries in the Mekong River basin. The resource, situated along the Laos‐Cambodia border, supports the livelihoods of around 65,000 inhabitants, mainly semi‐subsistence rice farmers or fishers. In January 2000, the provincial authority was given a special dispensation by the Lao government to allow the importation of Cambodian fish through Khong…
The Missing Link
Commodity chains that once involved a stepwise progression through multiple global, national and local scales are increasingly controlled through new 'spaces' of information and access, beyond the reach of scale-dependent governance regimes such as the state. Thus, to determine the geography of trade, the source and influence of information and the relevance of governance systems which mediate access and control over coastal resources requires an…
Health care at the end of the road
The unprecedented decision of Merck & Co., Inc., to donate ivermectin through the Mectizan(R) Donation Program, has catalysed an exemplary partnership, to distribute the drug to the communities at risk of onchocerciasis, and empower them to take charge of the drug distribution themselves. Integration with other activities has always been part of the plan, but has been accelerated in recent years because of the need to strengthen primary health ca…
Contextualising fisheries policy in the Lower Mekong Basin
Development policies for fishery resources within the Mekong River Basin are increasingly divided between aquaculture and capture fisheries. The modern production orientation of aquaculture has been adopted by government and NGOs and justified by the rhetoric of poverty alleviation and rural development. In contrast, capture fisheries has been subjugated as an activity that reaffirms the dependency of the rural poor on natural resources. This pap…
High and low value fish chains in the Mekong Delta
This paper investigates the structure, function and wealth distribution within the Pangasius hypophthalmus and Henicorhynchus spp./ Labiobarbus spp. value chains in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. The analysis is driven by key questions relating to the form and function of value chains, their contribution to the livelihoods of farmers and fishers, the effectiveness of government policy and the potential for value chain governance mechanisms, such as…
Governing ‘Spaces of Interaction’ for Sustainable Fisheries
This paper introduces the concept of ‘spaces of interaction’ to determine how existing market‐based governance tools improve participation and deliberation between actors along fish value chains. Exploring these linkages through the sociology of environmental flows and interactive governance theory the paper discusses: (1) how market‐based governance tools facilitate interaction within national and international value chains; (2) which links they…
Scenarios for Resilient Shrimp Aquaculture in Tropical Coastal Areas
Bush, S. R., P. A. M. van Zwieten, L. Visser, H. Van Dijk, R. Bosma, W. F. De Boer, and M. Verdegem. 2010. Scenarios for resilient shrimp aquaculture in tropical coastal areas. Ecology and Society 15(2): 15. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03331-150215
A valoração da pesca em águas continentais
A pesca tem sido, e provavelmente continuará sendo, uma importante fonte de alimento e renda para sociedade. Nesse trabalho os autores mostram que o valor econômico total da pesca nem sempre é reconhecido. O valor econômico total (VET) em rios pode ser dividido em valor de uso direto e valor de não-uso/valor de preservação. VET é a soma de todos os valores de uso e não uso, não importando como são derivados. Os autores mostram que há extrema difi…
Searching for (un)sustainabilty in pangasius aquaculture
Far More than Market-Based
The sustainable seafood movement has given greater credence to non-governmental organisation (NGO) involvement in fisheries' governance through a series of market-based tools and strategies, including consumer awareness campaigns and seafood certification schemes. Despite their proliferation in recent years, the market-based translation of consumer demand directly steering fishermen towards more sustainable practices, we argue, limits our underst…
Organic coasts? Regulatory challenges of certifying integrated shrimp–mangrove production systems in Vietnam
Can Patrons Be Bypassed? Frictions between Local and Global Regulatory Networks over Shrimp Aquaculture in East Kalimantan
Taking related concepts of friction and a simplified value chain analysis, this article focuses on interaction of three regulatory networks and their influence over sustainable shrimp aquaculture in East Kalimantan. The results show that while government and nongovernment organization (NGO) regulatory networks have focused on the standardization of best practices, it is artisanal trade networks, controlled by local patrons (or ponggawa), that hol…
Governing in a placeless environment
Beyond net deficits
Geographers first identified aquaculture as an important field of study during the 1990s, pointing to a 'net deficit' in geographical knowledge about the activity. This paper examines how far geographers have come in bridging this knowledge deficit in the last 20 years. While increasing attention has focused on the political economy of export products consumed in the global North, 'everyday' geographies of aquaculture production and consumption i…
Making social sense of aquaculture transitions
Resilience deals explicitly with change and provides a middle ground between the social and the environmental sciences. However, a growing critique by social scientists questions the ability of resilience thinking to adequately examine the social dimensions of change. The question that emerges is how social scientists should engage with resilience. We addressed this question by comparing resilience with agrarian change and transitions theory, thr…
Contribution of Fisheries and Aquaculture to Food Security and Poverty Reduction
Assembling sustainable territories
The authors show how certification assembles 'sustainable' territories through a complex layering of regulatory authority in which both government and nongovernment entities claim rule-making authority, sometimes working together, sometimes in parallel, sometimes competitively. It is argued that territorialisation is accomplished not just through (re)defining bounded space, but more broadly through the assembling of four elements: space, subjects…
Cross-border collaboration for neglected tropical disease efforts—Lessons learned from onchocerciasis control and elimination in the Mano River Union (West Africa)
Diseases don't respect borders, so efforts to control and eliminate diseases must also be flexible and adaptable enough to effectively reach the populations that live in the areas around national frontiers. Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness is a tropical disease that has historically affected millions of people in 35 countries in Africa and Latin America. In Africa, programs and partnerships to address river blindness through mass…
Comparison of Private Incentive Mechanisms for Improving Sustainability of Filipino Tuna Fisheries
Domestic Crop Booms, Livelihood Pathways and Nested Transitions
Rapidly transforming Asian food systems are oriented largely towards domestic markets, yet literature on Asian crop booms deals almost exclusively with commodities produced for export. With reference to pangasius aquaculture in Bangladesh, we argue that 'domestic crop booms' - agricultural booms driven by domestic demand - are contributing to rapid social and ecological transformations in Asia and across the globe. We adopt a comparative multi-sc…
Spaces of Flows/Spaces of Places
The spaces of flows and spaces of places denote the interplay between two interrelated social‐spatial configurations that have emerged under conditions of globalization. Central to Manuel Castells thesis of the network society, these concepts have been taken up in cultural and environmental sociology, as well as in other social science disciplines, to understand both processes of marginalization from and transitions toward global modernity
The Shifting Politics of Sustainable Seafood Consumerism
Seafood has emerged as a key testing ground for understanding the role of different value chain actors in driving sustainability. The conventional view, developed in the late 1990s, is that sustainable seafood is driven by the choices and practices of consumers in major importing markets, such as the United States and the European Union. This view led to the development of a range of boycott and buycott initiatives in the 2000s. Many of the buyco…
Climate migration myths
Inclusive environmental performance through ‘beyond-farm’ aquaculture governance
This paper examines the potential for improved environmental performance of smallholder aquaculture production through ‘beyond-farm’ governance. Smallholder aquaculture farmers face a range of systemic environmental risks related to disease and water quality that extend beyond the boundary of their farms. Yet most governance arrangements aimed at mitigating risks, such as certification, finance and insurance, are focused on the farm-level rather …
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