The Engineered Eco-system a toolkit for sustainability

工程生态系统是可持续发展的工具包

• 批准号: 971295
• 金额: $ 3.76万
• 依托单位: NEW GENERATION BIOGAS (NGB) LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=971295
• 关键词: Engineered; Eco; system; toolkit; sustainability

Rapidly increasing populations, environmental pressures and rising energy demand are converging to create the precursors to a catastrophe. Global food production needs to increase by 70 percent by 2050 in order to feed an additional 2.3 billion people (OECD – FAO Agricultural Outlook 2011-2020), and all these new individuals will be requiring their share of the world’s resources.Most current production and consumption methods, particularly in the developed world, are based on the assumption of infinite resource availability, and are consequently wasteful and environmentally unsustainable.There is no single solution to this approaching crisis, however we believe that a combination of existing and emerging technologies can be devised that will provide a toolkit for sustainability that can be combined, modified and scaled to suit local challenges and needs; providing Energy Generation, Food Production, Nutrient Retention and Water Conservation anywhere in the World.

迅速增长的人口、环境压力和不断增长的能源需求正在共同创造灾难的前兆。到2050年，全球粮食产量需要增加70%，才能养活另外23亿人。（经合组织-粮农组织《2011-2020年农业展望》），所有这些新的个体都将需要他们在世界资源中所占的份额。目前的大多数生产和消费方法，特别是在发达国家，都是基于资源无限可用的假设，对于这场即将到来的危机，没有单一的解决方案，但我们相信可以设计出现有和新兴技术的组合，这将提供一个可持续发展的工具包，可以进行组合，修改和扩展，以适应当地的挑战和需求;在世界任何地方提供能源发电，粮食生产，养分保留和水资源保护。