Changing the Face of the Waters - The Promise and Challenge of Sustainable Aquaculture

Klappentext As production from capture fisheries stagnates! aquaculture is changing the face of our waters. This book informs and provides guidance on sustainable aquaculture to decision makers in the international development community and in client countries of international finance institutions. The study focuses on several critical issues and challenges: (1) harnessing the contribution of aquaculture to economic development; (2) building environmentally sustainable aquaculture; (3) creating the enabling conditions for sustainable aquaculture; and (4) developing and transferring human and institutional capacity in governance! technologies! and business models with special reference to the application of lessons from Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Zusammenfassung As production from capture fisheries stagnates! aquaculture is changing the face of our waters. This book provides guidance on sustainable aquaculture to decision makers in the international development community and in client countries of international finance institutions.

Product details

• Authors: World Bank, World Bank (COR), World Bank Group
• Assisted by: World Bank Publications (Editor)
• Publisher: WORLD BANK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2007
• EAN: 9780821370155
• ISBN: 978-0-8213-7015-5
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Agriculture and Rural Developm; Agriculture and Rural Developm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics