1. How basic needs, aspirations, and desires of today’s society without compromising to future generations can be satisfied?
2. How a healthy environment, physically attractive and biologically productive,
can be maintained perpetually?
3. How can we get the balance among social sustainability, environmental, and
economic?
This chapter shows a perspective and progress on aquatic biosystems, its
strategy to get the knowledge in order to achieve sustainable technologies.
9.3 A Definition to the Aquatic Biosystems
The definition of aquatic biosytem is critical to understand its scope and function.
The word comes from the Greek bios meaning life and therefore refers to
everything that has life. The word ‘‘system’’ comes from the Greek ‘‘syn’’ meaning
together, and ‘‘histemi’’ which means to establish. So the definition of ‘‘biosystem’’ is understood as the analysis, design, and control of an entity or biological
process which can be oriented to production, processing materials, and food in a
sustainable manner in order to improve human health and environment. The
integration of the aquatic environment restricts the entity or biological process to
all that live in the water.
The study of aquatic biosystems has presented an incredible development in
recent years, mainly because its areas aim to achieve optimal use of water
resources. This area traditionally had its scientific basis in aquaculture. Considering this way of working, the group has defined as a priority the production of
aquatic organisms in a way that is cost-effective and environmentally-friendly. The
topics that have been addressed concerning aquatic production are:
Fig. 9.1 Transdisciplinarity working model to integrate different areas in order to establish
research on sustainable aquaculture
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2. How a healthy environment, physically attractive and biologically productive,
can be maintained perpetually?
3. How can we get the balance among social sustainability, environmental, and
economic?
This chapter shows a perspective and progress on aquatic biosystems, its
strategy to get the knowledge in order to achieve sustainable technologies.
9.3 A Definition to the Aquatic Biosystems
The definition of aquatic biosytem is critical to understand its scope and function.
The word comes from the Greek bios meaning life and therefore refers to
everything that has life. The word ‘‘system’’ comes from the Greek ‘‘syn’’ meaning
together, and ‘‘histemi’’ which means to establish. So the definition of ‘‘biosystem’’ is understood as the analysis, design, and control of an entity or biological
process which can be oriented to production, processing materials, and food in a
sustainable manner in order to improve human health and environment. The
integration of the aquatic environment restricts the entity or biological process to
all that live in the water.
The study of aquatic biosystems has presented an incredible development in
recent years, mainly because its areas aim to achieve optimal use of water
resources. This area traditionally had its scientific basis in aquaculture. Considering this way of working, the group has defined as a priority the production of
aquatic organisms in a way that is cost-effective and environmentally-friendly. The
topics that have been addressed concerning aquatic production are:
Fig. 9.1 Transdisciplinarity working model to integrate different areas in order to establish
research on sustainable aquaculture
280
G. M. Soto-Zarazúa et al.