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Fisheries and Aquaculture: The Food Security of the Future takes a multidisciplinary approach in evaluating the fisheries and aquaculture sectors from the scienti?c and practical perspectives of industry professionals. The authors recognize the importance of looking at the industry from a value chain viewpoint, not only for food security but also for a blue economy. The book takes a unique and innovative approach to show how ?sheries and aquaculture can achieve sustainability and how small ?shery communities can become highly successful ?shery and aquaculture communities and contribute to overall industry globalization. This is a practical and useful reference for a wide-ranging audience. It is for those who wish to make systematic e?orts to develop their fisheries or aquaculture sectors, scientists and researchers, anyone in ?sheries management or marine resource management, ?sh farmers, policy makers, leaders and regulators, operations researchers, as well as faculty and students.

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Dr. Einarsson, professor emeritus at Bifröst University and former professor at the University of Iceland, served as Rector of Bifröst University in Iceland and as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Iceland. He has served as a Member of the Icelandic Parliament and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Central Bank of Iceland. He was also a delegate for Iceland at the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. Dr. Einarsson has managed fish-processing and fisheries companies and various other enterprises and has served on boards of directors of numerous enterprises, associations and public entities, including the Confederation of Icelandic Employers, the Icelandic Fish Market, The Federation of Icelandic Fish-Processing Plants and various research institutes. Dr. Einarsson was a member of the Export Prize Committee of the President of Iceland. He served as chairman of the board of the Icelandic Enterprise Fund and as Vice President of the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He currently holds the position of chairman of the Advisory Committee of the National Marine and Freshwater Research Institute of Iceland. Dr. Einarsson is the author of 33 books on economics, culture and fisheries, over 50 journal articles and conference papers and over 400 shorter articles. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Siena, Stanford University, the Copenhagen Business School and New York University. Dr. Óladóttir earned her Ph.D in international business at Copenhagen Business School. She served as the Dean of the Business School at Bifrost University. She has over 20 years of management experience in companies and institutions in different fields These include non-governmental, academic and commercial organisations. Dr. Óladóttir has served as a board member and chairman of the board of several companies and institutions in Iceland and abroad, including banks, insurance companies, investment funds, retail companies and The Icelandic Competition Authority. Dr. Óladóttir has been appointed by the Supreme Court in Iceland and the Minister of Industry and Innovation to Arbitration, has served as a member of Audit committees and as the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of insurance companies, was appointed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to a negotiating committee on monetary union and appointed by the Minister of Finance and Economic affairs to a committee charged with monitoring implementation of the granting of supplemental loans with Treasury guarantees by credit institutions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Óladóttir serves as an associate professor and chair of undergraduate study at the faculty of business administration. She supervises and lectures the masters level course in fishing industry operations as well as other international business courses at the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Iceland.

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