Toward the Circular Economy in the Aquaculture Sector: Bibliometric, Network and Content Analyses

Margherita Masi (), Felice Adinolfi, Yari Vecchio, Giulio Paolo Agnusdei and Benedetta Coluccia ()
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Margherita Masi: Department of Veterinary Medical Science, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, 40064 Ozzano dell’Emilia, Italy
Felice Adinolfi: Department of Veterinary Medical Science, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, 40064 Ozzano dell’Emilia, Italy
Yari Vecchio: Department of Veterinary Medical Science, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, 40064 Ozzano dell’Emilia, Italy
Giulio Paolo Agnusdei: Department of Agricultural and Food Science, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Benedetta Coluccia: Department of Management and Economics, Pegaso Telematic University, 80143 Naples, Italy

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 13, 1-22

Abstract: This paper offers an overview of circular economy strategies applied to the aquaculture sector. The growing challenges imposed on the sector by the strategies of the Green Deal impose new growth strategies in the name of sustainability. The scalability of these strategies is increasingly hampered by regulatory voids and by the absence of a universally accepted assessment method for measuring the impacts of current aquaculture systems. More than ever, a review of knowledge in the circular economy field is required to comprehend where the aquaculture sector is heading, and in order to make the required transition. The present review proposes a bibliometric analysis, a network analysis and a content analysis, which highlight a very new and expanding field of research. The studies were firstly analyzed from a micro (animal metabolism) to a macro perspective (policies, markets and society), emphasizing where research is still lacking. Furthermore, a second level of classification concerns the type of circularity approach proposed for the aquaculture system, which can be divided into open-loop or closed-loop strategies. Regarding the open-loop-related studies, the focus of the evaluation is devoted to the different bioeconomic values of the circularity strategies proposed for the biological flows entering and exiting the aquaculture system. The literature review offered insights into the identification of research threads that are developing around the aquaculture sector.

Keywords: aquaculture; circular economy; biomass value pyramid; multilevel perspective; review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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