Book/Printed Material Comparative assessment of the environmental costs of aquaculture and other food production sectors : methods for meaningful comparisons : FAO / WFT Expert Workshop, 24-28 April 2006, Vancouver, Canada

Title

• Comparative assessment of the environmental costs of aquaculture and other food production sectors : methods for meaningful comparisons : FAO / WFT Expert Workshop, 24-28 April 2006, Vancouver, Canada

Summary

• The global food production sector is growing. In many areas farming systems are intensifying. This rapid growth has in some cases caused environmental damage. This document include an introduction and 12 review papers describing methods for such comparisons as well as the deliberations of their authors, a group of nineteen international experts on environmental economics, energy accounting, material and environmental flows analysis, aquaculture, agriculture and international development. Experts concluded that comparisons can be useful for addressing local development and zoning concerns, global issues of sustainability and trade and consumer preferences for inexpensive food produced in an environmentally sustainable manner. In order to be useful, however, methods to assess environmental costs should be scientifically based, comparable across different sectors, expandable to different scales, inclusive of externalities, practical to implement and easily understood by managers and policy-makers. Aquaculture in many locations and conditions is or could be much more environment friendly than other food sectors.--Publisher's description.

Names

• Bartley, Devin M.
• Brugère, Cécile D.
• Gerber, Pierre
• Harvey, Brian J.
• Soto, Doris
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• World Fisheries Trust

Created / Published

• Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007.

Contents

• Genesis of the workshop -- Food production : intensification and environmental impacts -- Workshop findings -- A potential role for FAO -- Contributed papers.

Headings

• -  Aquaculture industry--Congresses
• -  Aquaculture--Congresses
• -  Environmental policy--Economic aspects--Congresses

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references.
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (viii, 241 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

• HD9450.5

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2021762985

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2021762985

Rights Advisory

• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users Indicated permissions on file

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2021762985

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