Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 326, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.124712
Keywords
Urban Ecology; Microalgae; Ecological Engineering; Carbon fixation; Industrial Ecology
Funding
- CSIR-IICT [IICT/Pubs./2020/312]
- Tata Innovation Fellowship grant from DBT, New Delhi [BT/HRD/35/01/02/2018]
- INSPIRE Faculty grant from DST, New Delhi [DST/INSPIRE/04/2018/000214]
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The challenges of climate change and resource depletion require the design of ecologically engineered microcosms to address these issues. By integrating principles of Bioregenerative Life Support Systems (BLSS) with solar energy, a self-sustainable bioregenerative ecosystem (SSBE) can be created to fulfill urban life essentials and mitigate climate change, thus forming resilient communities.
Climate change, resource depletion and unsustainable crop productivity are major challenges that mankind is currently facing. Natural ecosystems of earth's biosphere are becoming vulnerable and there is a need to design Bioregenerative Life Support Systems (BLSS) which are ecologically engineered microcosms that could effectively deal with problems associated with urbanization and industrialization in a sustainable manner. The principles of BLSS could be integrated with waste fed biorefineries and solar energy to create a self-sustainable bioregenerative ecosystem (SSBE). Such engineered ecosystems will have potential to fulfil urban life essentials and climate change mitigation thus generating ecologically smart and resilient communities which can strengthen the global economy. This article provides a detailed overview on SSBE framework and its improvement in the contemporary era to achieve circular bioeconomy by means of effective resource recycling.
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