Fishery products are the world's most important source of animal protein, especially for the poor. Meeting the basic human needs for protein foods in the future will be a difficult challenge, especially as demand for fish has doubled since the 1950s. Realistically we can not expect to catch more food from the sea, so we must now turn to farming the waters, not just hunting them. The new challenge for planners is to accelerate aquaculture development and to plan for new production. As millions of people are moving from rural, inland areas to coastal cities we need to make urban areas not only centres of marketing and distribution, but also of production, particularly using recycled urban wastewater. This book on urban aquaculture includes papers from authors in the USA, Europe and Asia that review these emerging issues from the perspective of both developed and developing countries.
Researchers in aquaculture, water resources, urban planning and geography
A Future Urban Ecosystem Incorporating Urban Aquaculture for Wastewater Treatment and Food Production, B Costa-Pierce and A Desbonnet
Viewing Urban Aquaculture as an Agroindustry, G Lutz, Louisiana State University, USA The Evolution of Urban Aquaculture in Asia
Opportunities and Constraints to Urban Aquaculture, with a Focus on South and Southeast Asia, D C Little and S W Bunting, University of Stirling, UK
Development Status of Prospects for Wastewater-fed Aquaculture in Urban Environments,P Edwards
Peri-Urban Aquaculture and Poor Livelihoods in Kolkata, India, S W Bunting, N Kundu and M Mukherjee, Government of West Bengal, India
Wastewater-based Urban Aquaculture systems in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, P Van Minh, Asian Institute of Technology, Vietnam, and N De Pauw, Ghent University, Belgium
Wastewater Reuse Through Urban Aquaculture in Hanoi, Vietnam: Status and Prospects, V Quy Hoan, Hanoi Agricultural University, Vietnam, and P Edwards The Evolution of Urban Aquaculture in Europe and North America
The Emergence of Urban Aquaculture in Europe, S W Bunting and D C Little
Competitive Potential for USA Urban Aquaculture Products, M B Timmons, Cornell University, USA
Commercially Feasible Urban Recirculating Aquaculture: Addressing the Marine Sector, Y Zohar, Y Tal, H Schreier, C Steven, J Stubblefield and A Place, University of Maryland, USA
Shrimp Culture In Urban, Superintensive Closed Systems, C Browdy, Marine Resources Institute, Charleston, USA, and S Moss, The Oceanic Institute, USA
Aquaculture of the Florida Bay Scallop, Argopecten irradians concentricus, in Tampa Bay Florida (USA): An Urban Estuary, N Blake, University of South Florida, USA
Four Years of Recirculating Aquaculture In Boston Harbor, USA, C A Goudey and B M Moran, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA The Progress and Potentials of Urban Aquaculture Education
Urban Aquaculture in Brooklyn, New York, USA, M P Schreibman and C B Zarnoch, Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA
Growing A Future Crop of Aquaculturists: Creating An Urban Aquaculture Education Program in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA, J J Roy, The Sound School, New Haven, USA
Science in Action: Tools for Teaching Urban Aquaculture Concepts, J A Frederick, Center of Marine Biotechnology, Baltimore, USA
Urban Aquaculture: A Necessary Reality, J K Buttner, Salem State College, USA
Ecolobelling and Urban Aquaculture, C A Roheim, University of Rhode Island, USASynthesis
Aquaculture in Future Urban Ecosystems, A Desbonnet and B Costa-Pierce