Aquaponics Food Production Systems
- Submitting institution
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University of Greenwich
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 23260
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-15943-6
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- ISBN
- 9783030159429
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 13 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This 620 page book, co-edited by Benz Kotzen was published as an open access publication by Springer in 2019 ( https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-15943-6#about ). Benz Kotzen was critical in the editing of this book and the writing of the Preface and 5 Chapters:
• Chapter 1: Aquaponics and Global Food Challenges;
• Chapter 2: Aquaponics: Closing the Cycle on Limited Water, Land and Nutrient Resources;
• Chapter 7: Coup[led Aquaponic Systems;
• Chapter 12: Aquaponics: Alternative Types and Approaches; and
• Chapter 21: Aquaponics in the Built Environment;
The importance of this book in the field is evidenced by the number of downloads: Up until the 14th of February 2021 it has been downloaded in full or in part over 900,000 times. Benz Kotzen ensured that this book was available as an open access publication by securing funding from the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) organisation which also funded the EU
Aquaponics Hub (https://www.cost.eu/actions/FA1305/#tabs|Name:overview ) which was a pan EU and international project (April 2014-April 2018), devised and chaired by Benz Kotzen, which brought together the key researchers and industry leaders to increase research and research outputs in the EU. The main focus of the EU Aquaponics Hub was the development of aquaponics and policy regarding aquaponics in the EU, by leading the research agenda through the creation of a networking hub of expert research and industry scientists, engineers, economists, aquaculturists and horticulturalists. The publication with its 25 chapters is a collaborative endeavour which covers collaborative research across national boundaries over all areas to do with aquaponic food production. The COST project changed the face of aquaponics in Europe and indeed the world and this publication has changed the aquaponics landscape in individual research aspects, in its scope and in its reach.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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