Emmy

Wassénius

MSc

PhD candidate

emmy.wassenius@su.se

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Profile summary

  • Global food production systems
  • Marine social-ecological systems
  • Food trade and value chains
  • Systemic risks
  • Financial sector

Emmy Wassénius’ research focuses on understanding systemic risks in food production and trade

Wassénius is a joint PhD candidate between Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, and the Global Economic Dynamics and Biosphere programme (GEDB) at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Her PhD project focuses on identifying and understanding risks and vulnerabilities in the global food production system. Using this global approach allows her to investigate emergent patterns, and potentially emergent risks, that are not visible at the regional or local level. Similarly, looking at the food production system as a single system rather than at its sectoral components (e.g. fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture) allows for investigation into the connectivity between these sectors and its implication on risk and sustainability.

Outside her PhD project, Wassénius is involved in several projects focusing on the sustainable use of marine resources at a global scale. These different projects examine how different marine resource use activities interact with each other and their implication for sustainability.

Wassénius holds a MSc degree in Social-Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development from Stockholm Resilience Centre and a BSc in Marine Biology from the University of St Andrews (UK). After completing her MSc degree, Wassénius worked for two years as a research assistant in the GEDB programme, before commencing her PhD in Sustainability Science.

Publications by Wassénius, Emmy

Adapting risk assessments for a complex future

Journal / article | 2022

Wassénius, E., Crona, B. 2022. Adapting risk assessments for a complex future. One Earth. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.12.004

Human activities have progressively eroded the biosphere basis for our societies and introduced various risks. To navigate these risks, or potential undesirable outcomes of the future, we need tools and an understanding of how to assess risk in a complex world. Risk assessments are a powerful tool to address sustainability challenges. However, two issues currently hamper their ability to deal with sustainability risks: the lim...

Species differences drive spatial scaling of foraging patterns in herbivorous reef fishes

Journal / article | 2021

Chow, C., Wassénius, E., Dornelas, M., Hoey, A.. 2021. Species differences drive spatial scaling of foraging patterns in herbivorous reef fishes. Oikos. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.08713

Herbivory is a core ecosystem function that is delivered heterogeneously across space. Disentangling the drivers of foraging patterns is key to understanding the functional impact of herbivores. Because intrinsic drivers of foraging like metabolism, nutritional requirements and movement costs scale allometrically, foraging movement patterns in terrestrial herbivores have been shown to also scale positively with body size. Howe...

Sharing the seas: a review and analysis of ocean sector interactions

Journal / article | 2021

Crona, B., Wassénius, E., Lillepold, K., Watson, R., Selig, E., Hicks, C., Österblom, H., Folke, C., Jouffray, J., Blasiak, R.. 2021. Sharing the seas: a review and analysis of ocean sector interactions. Environmental Research Letters. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac02ed

Ocean activities are rapidly expanding as Blue Economy discussions gain traction, creating new potential synergies and conflicts between sectors. To better manage ocean sectors and their development, we need to understand how they interact and the respective outcomes of these interactions. To provide a first comprehensive picture of the situation, we review 3187 articles to map and analyze interactions between economically im...

Evolving Perspectives of Stewardship in the Seafood Industry

Journal / article | 2021

Blasiak, R., Dauriach, A., Jouffray, J., Folke, C., Österblom, H., Bebbington, J., Bengtsson, F., Causevic, A., Geerts, B., Grønbrekk, W., Henriksson, P., Käll, S., Leadbitter, D., McBain, D., Crespo, G., Packer, H., Sakaguchi, I., Schultz, L., Selig, E., Troell, M., Villalón, J., Wabnitz, C., Wassénius, E., Watson, R., Yagi, N., Crona, B.. 2021. Evolving Perspectives of Stewardship in the Seafood Industry. Frontiers in Marine Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.671837

Humanity has never benefited more from the ocean as a source of food, livelihoods, and well-being, yet on a global scale this has been accompanied by trajectories of degradation and persistent inequity. Awareness of this has spurred policymakers to develop an expanding network of ocean governance instruments, catalyzed civil society pressure on the public and private sector, and motivated engagement by the general public as co...