Resilience + sustainability of socio-ecological networks

November 23rd, 2021

Project duration

October 2021 to December 2025

The challenge

Increasingly, food supply systems are impacted by climate change (e.g. marine heatwaves), global pandemics and market disruptions. Remaining resilient under disruption, while also being sustainable, is essential for continued seafood supply in a changing world. But what does it mean to be resilient and how can we build future resilience across the supply chain?

Our response

This project is co-developing new methods, tools and indicators to evaluate cross-scale relationships between the resilience of seafood supply chains to different types of shocks and the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability, building from CSIRO’s emerging capability in socio-ecological system modelling. 

Impact

These activities are developing tools and measures to help industry, consumers and policy makers to better understand and plan for the effects of shocks (such as COVID-19, economic disruptions or climate extremes) on sustainability outcomes in marine and terrestrial food production sectors (and more broadly in associated communities).