SeaOasis: Floating Aquaculture for Smallholders' Global Food Security

This book highlights a research-based design proposal which has the  purpose of relieving from lack of global food supply. Due to the current  overuse of land, it suggests an extension of aquatic food production  with floating devices onto the sea. These devices are called SeaOasis  because they function as an oasis as closed-loop systems and are  therefore highly sustainable.

Best geographic conditions for an  extension from agriculture to aquaculture by SeaOasis match with coastal  areas with serious or alarming hunger index. The low complexity,  low-cost construction and the manageable size of the design is ideal for  smallholders to support food security in terms of accessibility,  affordability, and diversity of diet. Various configurations are  described and coupled with expected revenues for potential seed-funded  demonstration projects.

The book presents the entire  process from problem statement to design development and the preparation  of its implementation. It showcases therefore also the benefits of  aquatectural design as an interdisciplinary combination of aquatic  architectural design, marine engineering and biology, sociology and  economy.