Marine Biomass as the Basis for a Bio-Based, Circular Economy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Bioeconomy of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2025) | Viewed by 4163
Special Issue Editors
Interests: blue economy; sustainable use of the marine environment; sustainable aquaculture; development of economically and environmentally sustainable production systems for marine animals and plants; and marine resource management
Interests: environmental interactions of aquaculture; hatchery and growout techniques for commercially important marine species; sustainable aquaculture practice; aquaculture spatial planning; carbon footprint of aquatic products; marine ecosystem-based management (MEBM); sustainable aquaculture governance
Interests: aquaculture; aquaculture genetics (genetic parameters, selection strategies, genetic disease resistance, and breeding objectives); genetic resources and the adoption of breeding technologies; fish welfare and organic aquaculture (e.g., social interactions, consumer attitudes, willingness to pay, and regulations); sustainable food systems; circular bioeconomy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the global economy slowly pivots away from its reliance on fossil fuels, there is a growing need for truly sustainable raw material for the emerging bio-based economy. This raw material has multiple end points such as human feed, animal feed, bio-energy, bulk chemicals or the basis for bio-based products such as alternate plastics and bio-materials (termed here as food, feed or feedstocks). These new industries and their associated products will require a substantial increase in the global availability of feedstocks on which the industry will be based. If the global society is to avoid its past mistakes, then it is crucial that this new economy be based on the principles of economic, social and environmental sustainability and circularity, to move beyond a linear approach of use and discard. The supply of terrestrial food, feed or feedstocks is already facing sustainability issues in terms of land use, freshwater use, biodiversity loss and social conflicts and so there is growing interest to develop marine-based alternatives.
Marine biomass offers a number of advantages as the basis for this new economy, including the natural productivity of marine systems, the large amount of space available for the provision of biomass, and that their use beyond human feed is still to be extensively explored. In this Special Issue, we aim to explore the potential provision, conversion and use of various forms of marine biomass, along with the sustainability impacts (economic, social and environmental) of the creation of this new marine bio-based circular economy. Themes of the Special Issue might include marine biomass provision such as aquaculture production, marine biomass stabilisation, conversion, and the social/environmental or economic impacts of biomass production, stabilisation or conversion.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Adam Hughes
Dr. Hui Liu
Dr. Ingrid Olesen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine biomass
- marine bio-based circular economy
- blue economy
- sustainable use of the marine environment
- sustainable aquaculture
- marine ecosystem-based management
- marine biomass stabilisation and conversion
- social/environmental or economic impacts of biomass production, stabilisation or conversion
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