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Goods and Services of Marine Bivalves

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  • Open Access book covering the ecological, economic and social aspects of bivalve goods and services and looks into the direct and indirect benefits people obtain from marine bivalves

  • Provides new insights for scientists, students, shellfish producers, policy advisors, nature conservationists and decision makers

  • Stimulates the further development of the bivalve goods and services concept, as well as the implementation of an integrated approach for restoration and sustainable exploitation of marine bivalves

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Provisioning Services

  2. Regulating Services

  3. Cultural Services

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About this book

The aim of this open access book is to review and analyse the goods and services of bivalve shellfish. How they are defined, what determines the ecological functions that are the basis for the goods and services, what controversies in the use of goods and services exist, and what is needed for sustainable exploitation of bivalves from the perspective of the various stakeholders. The book is focused on the goods and services, and not on impacts of shellfish aquaculture on the benthic environment, or on threats like biotoxins; neither is it a shellfish culture handbook although it can be used in evaluating shellfish culture. The reviews and analysis are based on case studies that exemplify the concept, and show the strengths and weaknesses of the current applications. The multi-authored reviews cover ecological, economic and social aspects of bivalve goods and services. The book provides new insights for scientists, students, shellfish producers, policy advisors, nature conservationists and decision makers. This book is open access under the CC BY license.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Wageningen Marine Research and Aquaculture and Fisheries group, Wageningen University and Research, Yerseke, The Netherlands

    Aad C. Smaal

  • Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Monte de Caparica, Portugal

    Joao G. Ferreira

  • Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

    Jon Grant

  • Technical University of Denmark, Nykøbing Mors, Denmark

    Jens K. Petersen

  • Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

    Øivind Strand

About the editors

prof. dr. AC (Aad) Smaal. Wageningen Marine Research, Regional Center Yerseke, The Netherlands

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