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The environmental impacts of the shipping industry from cradle to grave – a joint investigation from two Bachelor’s theses

The environmental impacts of the shipping industry from cradle to grave – a joint investigation from two Bachelor’s theses

In 2024, a collaboration between SOS and Meyer Turku was initiated to explore ways of mitigating the shipping industry’s impact on biodiversity. This partnership led to the production of two bachelor’s theses in Environmental and Marine Biology: William Nyholm investigated the environmental effects of the construction and operational phases of ships, while Amanda Nygren focused on the dismantling process.

16th NESS in Turku: Co-producing knowledge for sustainability

16th NESS in Turku: Co-producing knowledge for sustainability

Sustainability transformations are urging for complementary approaches to understand and affect the ways in which human beings know about and live with nature. In research, this implies sustained attention to interdisciplinary dialogue as a form of knowledge co-production. Such a dialogue can refer both to cooperation across academic fields and disciplinary boundaries, as well as to the engagement with different stakeholders in the processes of knowledge production.