Scoping a Public Health Impact Assessment of Aquaculture with Particular Reference to Tilapia in the UK
Joint Authors
Doi, Larry
Boyd, Kathleen A.
Murray, Francis
Azim, Ekram
Young, James A.
Watterson, Andrew
Little, David
Source
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-18, 18 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-03-04
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
18
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Background.
The paper explores shaping public health impact assessment tools for tilapia, a novel emergent aquaculture sector in the UK.
This Research Council’s UK Rural Economy and Land Use project embraces technical, public health, and marketing perspectives scoping tools to assess possible impacts of the activity.
Globally, aquaculture produced over 65 million tonnes of food in 2008 and will grow significantly requiring apposite global public health impact assessment tools.
Methods.
Quantitative and qualitative methods incorporated data from a tridisciplinary literature.
Holistic tools scoped tilapia farming impact assessments.
Laboratory-based tilapia production generated data on impacts in UK and Thailand along with 11 UK focus groups involving 90 consumers, 30 interviews and site visits, 9 visits to UK tilapia growers and 2 in The Netherlands.
Results.
The feasibility, challenges, strengths, and weaknesses of creating a tilapia Public Health Impact Assessment are analysed.
Occupational and environmental health benefits and risks attached to tilapia production were identified.
Conclusions.
Scoping public health impacts of tilapia production is possible at different levels and forms for producers, retailers, consumers, civil society and governmental bodies that may contribute to complex and interrelated public health assessments of aquaculture projects.
Our assessment framework constitutes an innovatory perspective in the field.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Watterson, Andrew& Little, David& Young, James A.& Murray, Francis& Doi, Larry& Boyd, Kathleen A.…[et al.]. 2012. Scoping a Public Health Impact Assessment of Aquaculture with Particular Reference to Tilapia in the UK. ISRN Public Health،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-454195
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Watterson, Andrew…[et al.]. Scoping a Public Health Impact Assessment of Aquaculture with Particular Reference to Tilapia in the UK. ISRN Public Health No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-454195
American Medical Association (AMA)
Watterson, Andrew& Little, David& Young, James A.& Murray, Francis& Doi, Larry& Boyd, Kathleen A.…[et al.]. Scoping a Public Health Impact Assessment of Aquaculture with Particular Reference to Tilapia in the UK. ISRN Public Health. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-18.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-454195
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-454195