Fishing for a Sustainable Future

A Sustainable Fishing Plan for the Farne Deeps Nephrops fishery

Sustainable production and future trend

Over the last 50 years the world’s population and industrialization have soared leading to increased resource use, pollution and waste, and in turn to problems including raw materials shortage and unsustainable increases in landfill areas environmental, social and economic expectation stakeholders of the company every day more and more. Designing products with reuse at end of life in mind is a ...

A Sustainable Forest Future?

1 Department of Economics, University College London, Gower St, London, WC1E 6BT, UK. E mail: [email protected] 2 Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL 32611, USA and CIFOR, PO Box 6596 JKPWB, Jakarta 10065, Indonesia. E-mail: [email protected] 3 School of Resource Science and Management, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW, Australia. E-mail: JVanc...

Bright spots of sustainable shark fishing

Sharks, rays and chimeras (class Chondrichthyes; herein 'sharks') today face possibly the largest crisis of their 420 million year history. Tens of millions of sharks are caught and traded internationally each year, many populations are overfished to the point where global catch peaked in 2003, and a quarter of species have an elevated risk of extinction [1-3]. To some, the solution is to simpl...

Plants: biofactories for a sustainable future?

Depletion of oil reserves and the associated effects on climate change have prompted a re-examination of the use of plant biomass as a sustainable source of organic carbon for the large-scale production of chemicals and materials. While initial emphasis has been placed on biofuel production from edible plant sugars, the drive to reduce the competition between crop usage for food and non-food ap...