Patrik

Henriksson

PhD

Researcher

patrik.henriksson@beijer.kva.se

+46 8-674 7890

@PakaHen

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Profile summary

  • Aquaculture
  • Life Cycle Assessment
  • Antibiotics
  • Seafood
  • Inequality
  • Blue Food
  • Nutrition security

Patrik Henriksson explores the future role of Blue Foods in a more sustainable global food portfolio

Henriksson has worked at SRC with the support from WorldFish since 2015, first as a post-doc, later as a researcher. His expertise is on Life Cycle Assessments of food commodities, with a focus on Blue Foods.

He is also exploring ways of reducing the environmental impact of aquaculture, especially in the Global South. This also includes ways to reduce antimicrobial use in fish farming.

Together with the Beijer Young Scholars, Henriksson is also trying to understand the interactions between inequality and the biosphere, using seafood and palm oil in Indonesia as a case study.

Henriksson has a background in marine biology, with a focus on environmental footprinting of aquaculture products. With an MSc from Stockholm University, he completed a PhD at Leiden University, the Netherlands in 2015.

After completing his PhD, Henriksson received funding from Vinnova to pursuit a post-doc between SRC and WorldFish. He later received funding from FORMAS to continue as a researcher, first through the SeaWin project, and later through the Inequality and the Biosphere project.

Henriksson is a scientific advisor for SEABOS, mainly through TFIII focusing on antibiotic stewardship in aquaculture. He has also contributed to the Blue Food Assessment, and is a proud member of the Beijer Young Scholars. He is also collaborating with Oxford University to develop the HESTIA platform, a standardised format to represent agri-environmental data.

Awards and achievemnts

  • Stiftelsen Konung Carl XVI Gustafs 50-årsfond för vetenskap, teknik och miljö
  • Expert Advisor for the WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award

Current funding

  • FORMAS Inequality and the Biosphere project (2020- 00454).
  • FORMAS SeaWin project (2016-00227)
  • CGIAR Trust Fund

Key publications

Gephart JA, Henriksson PJG, Parker RWR, et al (2021) Environmental performance of blue foods. Nature 597:360–365.

Henriksson PJG, Troell M, Banks LK, et al (2021) Interventions for improving the productivity and environmental performance of global aquaculture for future food security. One Earth 4:1220–1232.

Henriksson PJG, Belton B, Jahan KM-, Rico A (2018a) Measuring the potential for sustainable intensification of aquaculture in Bangladesh using life cycle assessment. Proc Natl Acad Sci 115:2958–2963.

Henriksson PJG, Rico A, Troell M, et al (2018b) Unpacking factors influencing antimicrobial use in global aquaculture and their implication for management: a review from a systems perspective. Sustain Sci 13:1105–1120.

Henriksson PJG, Rico A, Zhang W, et al (2015) Comparison of Asian Aquaculture Products by Use of Statistically Supported Life Cycle Assessment. Environ Sci Technol 49:14176–14183.

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Publications by Henriksson, Patrik

Transforming sustainable aquaculture by applying circularity principles

Journal / article | 2023

Killian Chary, Anne‐Jo van Riel, Abigail Muscat, Aurélie Wilfart, Souhil Harchaoui, Marc Verdegem, Ramón Filgueira, Max Troell, Patrik J. G. Henriksson, Imke J. M. de Boer, Geert F. Wiegertjes. 2023. Transforming sustainable aquaculture by applying circularity principles. Reviews in Aquaculture. https://doi.org/10.1111/raq.12860

A circular economy is considered one way to reduce environmental impacts of human activities, by more efficient use of resources and recovery, resulting in less waste and emissions compared to linear take-make-dispose systems. Muscat et al. developed five ecological principles to guide biomass use towards a circular economy. A few studies have demonstrated environmental benefits of applying these principles to land-based food ...

Scientific mobilization of keystone actors for biosphere stewardship

Journal / article | 2022

Österblom, H., Folke, C., Rocha, J. et al. Scientific mobilization of keystone actors for biosphere stewardship. Sci Rep 12, 3802 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07023-8

The biosphere crisis requires changes to existing business practices. We ask how corporations can become sustainability leaders, when constrained by multiple barriers to collaboration for biosphere stewardship. We describe how scientists motivated, inspired and engaged with ten of the world’s largest seafood companies, in a collaborative process aimed to enable science-based and systemic transformations (2015–2021). CEOs face...

Studying Factors Affecting Success of Antimicrobial Resistance Interventions through the Lens of Experience: A Thematic Analysis

Journal / article | 2022

Graells, T., Lambraki, I.A., Cousins, M., Léger, A., et.al. 2022. Studying Factors Affecting Success of Antimicrobial Resistance Interventions through the Lens of Experience: A Thematic Analysis. Antibiotics (Basel). 2022 May 10;11(5):639. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics11050639.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) affects the environment, and animal and human health. Institutions worldwide have applied various measures, some of which have reduced antimicrobial use and AMR. However, little is known about factors influencing the success of AMR interventions. To address this gap, we engaged health professionals, designers, and implementers of AMR interventions in an exploratory study to learn about their exp...

Farming the Ocean – Seaweeds as a Quick Fix for the Climate?

Journal / article | 2022

Troell, M., Henriksson, P.J.G., Buschmann, A.H., Chopin, T., Quahe, S. 2022. Farming the Ocean – Seaweeds as a Quick Fix for the Climate? Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture, https://doi.org/10.1080/23308249.2022.2048792

Finding ways to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius is urgent and will need a portfolio of solutions. Seaweeds are marine photosynthetic organisms that humans harvest either from the wild or farm, to be used in many applications and providing various ecosystem services. Large scale farming of seaweeds for absorbing carbon has lately been promoted as a climate “fix”. The major shortcomings of this argument relate to ...