The role of agency for the shifting balance of economic, environmental, and social sustainability in the history of the Norwegian salmon farming industry

Stig-Erik Jakobsen and Arnt Fløysand

Chapter 8 in Sustainable Regional Restructuring, 2025, pp 110-128 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the historical development of the Norwegian salmon farming industry, emphasising the shifting balance between economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Drawing on evolutionary economic geography and, more specifically, path dependence theory and the principles of path tracing, this chapter identifies ten key events in the industry's history. Furthermore, it discusses how these events can be attributed to various combinations of firm- and system-level agency and have different implications for sustainability. During the industry's creation and first growth phase, the social dimension and local development, i.e., social sustainability, were of paramount importance. This has been followed by a stronger hegemony for economic sustainability and eventually complemented by various initiatives promoting environmental sustainability. Our theoretical observation is that there is a strong temporal aspect associated with how and in which way industries are sustainable, and we need historical analyses to comprehend the mechanisms explaining this changing dynamic

Keywords: Sustainability; Evolutionary Economic Geography; Path Dependence; Agency; History; Salmon Farming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035330782
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