Overview
- Reviews exhaustively recent advances in marine biotechnology and identifies challenges in realizing its potential
- Explores the economic potential of marine biotechnology
- Discusses the promise of marine biotechnology in the 21st Century
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Grand Challenges in Biology and Biotechnology (GCBB)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Promise of the Blue Biotechnology
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The Economic Potential of Marine Biotechnology
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Supporting the Development of Marine Biotechnology
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About this book
This book serves as essential reading for research scientists and biotechnologists from both academia and industry working in marine biotechnology and related disciplines. The book discusses recent advances and challenges in terms of science, technology, innovation, and policy for the development of the field; and how marine biotechnology may provide new solutions to some of the grand challenges faced by our society. Written in an accessible language, the book is also recommended as a reference text for decision-makers in government and non-governmental organizations in their efforts to foster the development of a global blue economy.
With less than 5 % of the vast and rich marine environment explored, our seas and oceans represent a virtually unexplored resource for the discovery of novel product, processes, and development of bio-inspired synthetic drugs with biotechnological potential. As such, the marine environment has been considered Earth's last frontier of exploration. Recent advances in molecular techniques are providing the necessary tools to access on a larger scale the still-untapped ocean resources and, consequently, unveil the promise of the blue biotechnology. Governments are recognizing the potential of marine biotechnology to provide solutions to some of the Grand Challenges of the 21st Century such as sustainable energy and food sources, identification of novel drugs for improved health treatments, and providing new industrial materials and processes. For this reason, advances in marine biotechnology may foster the much-needed source of innovation and economic growth in many countries, and pave the way towards the development of a global blue economy, i.e. a new economic model based on the sustainable exploration of our ocean ecosystems.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Antonio Trincone is author of more than 140 scientific publications (articles, reviews, book contributions) appeared in international leading scientific journals. Currently he is a Senior Researcher working since 1983 in Naples at the Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare belonging to Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy. He has been Professor of Organic Chemistry in charge for several years at University of Salerno, Italy. Antonio has been the editor of different scientific books and special issues dedicated to marine biotechnology. He is Specialty Chief Editor of Marine Biotechnology (Frontiers in Marine Science), editing different research topics for this journal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Grand Challenges in Marine Biotechnology
Editors: Pabulo H. Rampelotto, Antonio Trincone
Series Title: Grand Challenges in Biology and Biotechnology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69075-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69074-2Published: 30 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09866-7Published: 16 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69075-9Published: 15 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2367-1017
Series E-ISSN: 2367-1025
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 616
Topics: Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Applied Microbiology, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology