Recently we have seen a substantial increase in pressure for industries, such as aquaculture, to become more sustainable. When it comes to practical attempts to operationalise sustainable development, however, the ‘social stuff’ is often neglected. In this paper, we provide a detailed exploration of how the concept of social sustainability is operationalised (and therefore understood) within the aquaculture certification context. We found that a) certification schemes do address social sustainability, but relevant indicators mostly focus on workers’ rights, or link directly back to environmental sustainability (through the consequences of environmental impact on humans); and b) the actions required often add little over and above existing legal requirements. Essentially, aquaculture sustainability certification schemes have not (yet) taken the opportunity to further shape our understanding of what social sustainability means, or how it is practiced. The consequence of this may be the impression that industries are truly sustainable, just because they have obtained sustainability certification.

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“社会事物”和所有爵士乐：了解社会可持续性的剩余类别

最近，我们看到水产养殖等行业要变得更加可持续的压力大大增加。然而，当谈到实现可持续发展的实际尝试时，“社会因素”往往被忽视。在本文中，我们详细探讨了如何在水产养殖认证背景下实施（并因此理解）社会可持续性概念。我们发现 a) 认证计划确实解决了社会可持续性问题，但相关指标主要关注工人的权利，或者直接与环境可持续性联系起来（通过环境对人类的影响）；b) 所需的行动通常很少超出现有的法律要求。本质上，水产养殖可持续性认证计划（尚未）借此机会进一步塑造我们对社会可持续性的含义或实践方式的理解。这样做的后果可能是给人一种工业真正可持续的印象，仅仅因为它们获得了可持续性认证。