“Human Dimensions of Oceans: From a Sociological Perspective” blog series is live on FATHOM.

CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE BLOG BY OCEAN NEXUS

In The Gambia, fishmeal and fish oil factories are feeding global markets while compromising local health and food security. Drawing on community testimonies and policy insight, this post examines how industrial pollution, weakened regulation, and export-oriented production deepen inequalities in coastal communities. It calls for a blue justice approach that centers equity, sustainability, and community well-being in national fisheries governance.
On North Carolina's coastal plain, industrial livestock operations come with great environmental and public health risk. In an age of climate change and loose government regulation, it is low income and minority communities that are most likely burdened with the consequences.
If the principles of equity were what guided our thinking, industrial, community dividing, polluting technologies might not be our only option.
Drawing from an interdisciplinary list of scholars, this list of must-reads explores the nexus of oceans and justice research.