Folke, Carl and Kautsky, Nils and Berg, Hakan and Jansson, Asa and Troell, Max (1998) The Ecological footprint concept for sustainable seafood production: A Review. Ecological Applications, Vol.8 (1). pp. 63-71. ISSN 1051-0761
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The capacity of marine and coastal ecosystems to sustain seafood production and consumption is seldom accounted for. In this article, we review estimates of marineand coastal areas appropriated by aquaculture and fisheries for seafood production, and also by cities and whole regions for seafood consumption. The appropriated ecosystemarea—the ecological footprint—ranges from negligible to as much as 50 000 ha/ha activity,largely depending on the methods of farming and fishing. The area for waste assimilationranges from 2 to 275 ha/ha seafood production. The human population of the Baltic Searegion (85,106people) appropriate for their seafood consumption an area of marine ecosystems that corresponds to two additional Baltic Sea areas. Twenty percent of the global human population (1.1�109people), living in large cities worldwide, appropriate 25% of the globally available area of productive coastal and marine ecosystems. The capacity ofmarine and coastal ecosystems to produce seafood is not included in the signals that guideeconomic development. Practices that make use of this capacity without degrading it haveto be developed and protected from economic and social driving forces that create incentives for misuse of coastal and marine ecosystems.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Aquaculture, Marine Ecosystems, Sustainable Fisheries, Fish Production |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Varsha V icsf |
| Date Deposited: | 10 May 2022 11:05 |
| Last Modified: | 10 May 2022 11:05 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/14289 |
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