ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Aquatic Foods
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1608180
This article is part of the Research TopicAchieving Sustainable Aquatic Food Systems in a Changing Climate: Building Resilience through Blue TransformationView all articles
Assessing the connection between land use change and the aquaculture sector toward achieving climate goals
Provisionally accepted
- Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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When land is converted for aquaculture, it often involves several negative consequences such as the destruction of natural resources, social and community impact, climate change resilience, and ecological and economic risk. Therefore, this research aims to ascertain how Land Use Change (LUC) in the EU27 region has been impacted by the expansion of the aquaculture produciton between 1990 to 2023 toward achieving climate goals. Three distinct econometric estimators were used to solve the endogeneity problem in this research: Robust Least Squares, two-stage least squares, and ordinary least squares. The precise magnitudes of the impact show that the land destruction in EU13 nations in comparison to EU14 nations is seriously driven by the unsustainable growth of the aquaculture industry. The exact magnitudes of the impact show that, in the EU14 nations, the consumption of fossil fuels and economic outgrowth in the aquaculture industry are the main drivers of land use change, more so than in the EU13 nations. According to the examination, the institutional quality of the aquaculture sector has a bigger impact on how land use changes are managed in EU13 nations than in EU14 nations toward achieving climate goals in the EU.
Keywords: Aquaculture expansion, land use change, Green development, sustainable development, cliamte change
Received: 08 Apr 2025; Accepted: 05 May 2025.
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* Correspondence: Mohd Alsaleh, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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