CSERGE and Pyramid of Life at Envecon2024

In collaboration with the UK Network for Environmental Economists and the SMMR funded Pyramids of Life, CSERGE co-organised a panel session on ‘Multidisciplinary Perspectives for a Sustainable Marine Environment’ at the envecon 2024 on the 8th of March. Envecon is the UK’s most prominent environmental economics conference, with around 150 delegates from academia, policy and industry gathering every year in central London to discuss economics applications to environmental and social issues.

The panel session co-organised by CSERGE discussed fisheries management, ecological modelling, consumer preferences and policy scenarios aimed to showcase the Pyramids of Life research and understand its usefulness for decision making within the public and the private sector.

During the session, Ellen McHarg (Leverhulme Doctoral student at UEA and CSERGE) presented her research Understanding consumer preferences for sustainable seafood consumption, undertaken within the Pyramids of Life project, to explore changes in dietary behaviour for sustainable seafood consumption. Two other Pyramids of Life presentations took place: one by the project PI Professor Jon Pitchford on Understanding the complexity of measuring the “maximum sustainable yield” principle and one by Dr Bryce Stewart about How evidence can feed policy decision making.

The presentations sparked the interest of the panellists joining the discussion moderated by Dr Silvia Ferrini (CSERGE) with contributions by Dr Aisling Lannin (Head of Scientific Evidence and Evaluation at the MMO – Marine Management Organization), Jack Clarke (Seafood Engagement Manager at MCS – Marine Conservation Society) and Mike Roach (Deputy CEO at the NFFO – National Federation of Fishermen’s Organisations). Each panellists provided different perspectives from the sectors and organisations that they represent making the discussion very interactive and stimulating for the conference audience.