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Biodiversity and Bioeconomy

Status Quo, Challenges, and Opportunities

  • 1st Edition - September 29, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Kripal Singh, Milton Cezar Ribeiro, Ozgul Calicioglu
  • Language: English

Biodiversity and Bioeconomy: Status Quo, Challenges, and Opportuniti es comprehensively delivers the latest developments in theories of biodiversity and ecosystem functi oning an… Read more

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Description

Biodiversity and Bioeconomy: Status Quo, Challenges, and Opportuniti es comprehensively delivers the latest developments in theories of biodiversity and ecosystem functi oning and their major implicati ons for biodiversity conservati on through diversifying agriculture, forestry, and biomass producti on systems and linking these developments with sustainability of bioeconomy.

This book provides basic understanding of biodiversity and bioeconomy, diff erent views of their interrelati onship, and their links with sustainable development goals. It also examines the research and practi ce of biodiversity and ecosystem functi oning in agriculture, forestry,
and biomass producti on systems to achieve sustainable bioeconomy. Finally, this book examines status, challenges, and opportuniti es for biodiversity-centered bioeconomy providing a way forward.

Key features

  • Examines the status of scienti fi c understanding of biodiversity and bioeconomy and interrelatedness
  • Describes challenges and opportuniti es for socioeconomic and ecologically sustainable development of bioeconomy
  • Covers agriculture, forestry, and aquati c ecosystems and explores their biodiversity and bioeconomy potentials

Readership

Academics (MSc and PhD students) and researchers in the area of Agroecology, Biodiversity, Bioeconomy, Bioenergy, Biomass, Forestry and Sustainable Development

Table of contents

  1. Biodiversity and bioeconomy: are these two faces of a single coin?
  2. Impact of drivers of biodiversity loss on mountain ecosystems: assessing the need for ecosystem health assessments in Indian Himalayan Region
  3. Linking bioeconomy with sustainable development goals: identifying and monitoring socio-ecological opportunities and challenges of bioeconomy
  4. Linking ecological restoration and biodiversity conservation with bioeconomy
  5. Biodiversity for ecosystem services and sustainable development goals
  6. Agriculture paradigm shift: a journey from traditional to modern agriculture
  7. Biodiversity: goal and driver of agricultural sustainability
  8. Biodiversity and bioresources: impact of biodiversity loss on agricultural sustainability
  9. Integrating perennials into agroecosystems for enhanced soil biodiversity and long-term sustainability
  10. Significance of soil organic carbon for regenerative agriculture and ecosystem services
  11. Vegetation composition of Achanakmaar Amarkantak biosphere reserve and its ecosystem services
  12. Plantation forests, biodiversity, and economy
  13. Socioeconomic and ecological sustainability of agroforestry
  14. Agroforestry-based bioeconomy transition in Cameroon: realities and the way forward
  15. Bioeconomy transition for the attainment of Cameroon’s National Development Strategy (NDS30) goal of environmental and nature protection:assessing the all-encompassing contribution of agroforestry
  16. Water biodiversity: ecosystem services, threats, and conservation
  17. Biodiversity-friendly bioenergy—a closer look on farmer’s experiences with perennial wild plant mixture cultivation for biogas production
  18. Exploring bioeconomic value addition potential of seaweeds for wastewater treatment
  19. Lignocellulosic biomass production: biodiversity benefits and threats
  20. Water hyacinth biomass valorization: fostering biodiversity and sustainable development in the bioeconomy
  21. Commercial products and environmental benefits of algal diversity
  22. Structural tenets of efficient bioeconomy and role of biofuels

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 29, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Kripal Singh

Dr. Kripal Singh (PhD) is a research professor at Andong Nati onal University, Andong, South Korea. He has been working in restorati on ecology, bioenergy research, and biodiversity conservati on since last 17 years at leading research and academic organizati ons in India, South Africa, and South Korea. He has published more than 50 research arti cles in various peer-reviewed internati onal journals and 3 books. He is also sitti ng on editorial boards as regular and guest editor of various high repute journals of Elsevier, Wiley Online, and MDPI and serving as a member of IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management and research advisor for Yancheng Teachers University, China and AF Development Care, New Delhi, India.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Andong National University, Andong, South Korea

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Milton Cezar Ribeiro

Prof. Milton Cezar Ribeiro (PhD) is a professor and head of the Department of Biodiversity, State University of São Paulo UNESP—Rio Claro. Milton has been working majorly in the domain of ecological sciences for the last 22 years. His main interest is to understand how land use and environment changes aff ect plant and animals’ community and ecosystem functi oning on temporal and spati al scales. He is the principal investi gator at the Spati al Ecology and Conservati on Lab (LEEC) and is a member of the research groups of Environmental Research Center (CEA, UNESP) and Center for Research on Biodiversity Dynamics and Climate Change (BioGate). Milton has published more than 200 research papers in peer-reviewed high impact journals and 10 book chapters and supervised more than 50 theses, including masters and doctoral work.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and head of the Department of Biodiversity, State University of São Paulo UNESP—Rio Claro, Brasil.

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Ozgul Calicioglu

Dr. Özgül Calicioglu (PhD) is an environmental engineer at a multi lateral investment bank. As part of her work at the World Bank, Özgül supervises various analyti cal studies and investment projects related to agroclimati c and coastal resilience, circular economy, and polluti on management. Previously, Özgül worked at the Food and Agriculture Organizati on of the United Nati ons (FAO), on linking sustainable bioeconomy indicators to the 2030 Global Sustainability Agenda, and applied her academic experti se in the life cycle and techno-economic analyses of waste-to-energy systems on climate-smart agriculture projects. Özgül holds an academic track record in environmental engineering and science-policy interface.
Affiliations and expertise
Environmental Specialist, The World Bank Group, Washington DC, USA

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