University of Plymouth - Seeking marine-focused businesses to collaborate in research project

University of Plymouth - Seeking marine-focused businesses to collaborate in a research project
 
Biodiversity management is rising on the business agenda. Increasing policy demands for organisations to transparently disclose their relationships with biodiversity are amplifying this risk and driving action. However, the strategies for organisations to manage this risk are at a nascent stage, and with biodiversity a nebulous concept, methodologies, indicators, and data are often unavailable or inadequate for the purpose of risk management, a situation exacerbated in marine contexts. Research is needed to develop strategies and agenda to manage this risk to support a transition to sustainable business models that effectively manage risk and protect marine biodiversity.
 
At the University of Plymouth, Dr Holly Niner, Global Challenge Research Fellow from the School of Biological and Marine Sciences is developing a research proposal to create a framework for organisations to understand and communicate how their activity affects marine biodiversity and people (e.g. wellbeing). When applied, the Framework will guide transformed marine biodiversity reporting practices within businesses and provide options to act and avert trends of biodiversity degradation alongside reducing business biodiversity-linked risk.
 
We seek businesses with marine-focused value chains to collaborate in developing understanding perceptions and current biodiversity reporting practices and partners interested in participating in an in-depth programme of mixed-method research, including workshops. The objective is to examine and co-develop a Theory of Change for businesses to reimagine how international aims and growing societal norms for biodiversity protection and enhancement can be applied at an individual organisational level.
 
Anyone interested in participating in this research should contact Dr Holly Niner, at the University of Plymouth via enterprisesolutions@plymouth.ac.uk.