Marine Biotechnology for Sustainability of Ecologically Significant Resources
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Oceans".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 29455
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine biotechnology; microalgae; biofuels; omega-3 oils
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Interests: lipid technology; environmental applications; marine oils; microbial ecology; marine microbial biotechnology
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Interests: algae (including seaweeds) biology, physiology, cell biology and biotechnology; high-value and commodity products from algae; algal and cyanobacterial production and harvesting systems; redox biochemistry and bioenergetics; photobioreactor technology; biological hydrogen production; biomass to bioenergy; photosynthetic microbial fuel cells; renewables, bioremediation and integrated value-chain design
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue will focus on how marine biotechnologies could provide social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
Marine biotechnologies are not universally applicable and interfacing ecosystem knowledge with biotechnology for sustainable production of feeds, fuels and biochemicals could complement mariculture operations. The potential also exists to enhance future marine spatial planning to integrate coastal agriculture and recreation use due to the ongoing expansion of coastal population growth and the activities associated with it. For example, microalgae biotechnologies require both favorable growing conditions and economic bioprocessing for both scaling up and the associated downstream processing.
Application of such biotechnology can also help to reduce wastes by recycling nutrients and subsequently reducing greenhouse gas footprints, in order to achieve social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
The Special Issue aims to capture technologies from marine spatial planning, life cycle assessment, carbon capture technologies, nutrients cycling, through to production of high-value bioproducts, such as the health-benefitting bioingredients, especially omega (ω) 3 long-chain (LC, ≥C20) polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 LC-PUFA), for use in mariculture feed and nutraceutical products. In addition, the Special Issue will provide emphasis toward scientific contributions that enhance social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
The Issue will further aim to supplement the gap between current industrial practices and R&D efforts to address future global needs.
Dr. Kim Lee Chang
Prof. Dr. Peter D. Nichols
Dr. Mike Packer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- blue economy
- marine bioproducts
- biodiscovery
- marine biodiversity
- bioengineering
- algal biotechnology
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