Green and Blue Economy Frameworks for Halal Industry Sustainability

This book serves as a valuable resource for economic policymakers, economic analysts, halal trainers, halal stakeholders, agribusiness advocates, and halal industry consultants in the rapidly changing emerging green and blue economy. The book explores the themes of green and blue economies for halal industry sustainability and business entrepreneurship as well as production and consumption, ethics and impact investments in halal, green and blue entrepreneurship, and principles governing the innovation of production framework through integration of green and blue economy. The green and blue economy frameworks can be applied to the Halal industry to enhance its sustainability and promote environmental and social responsibility. This book presents the emerging blue and green economy to halal entrepreneurs as a complementary alternative model for enterprise development, wealth creation, employment creation, responsible production, and sustainable consumption and a catalyst for attaining sustainable development goals.

Salisu Monsuru Adekunle was a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education, Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia. He is currently the founder and CEO of AgroFood and Halal Compliance Auditing (AHCA) and MAS GI-RESOURCES. His research interests include sustainable agriculture, Halal Industry Management, Food Safety and Sustainability. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the AmericAgroTech - Sustainable Agriculture Food & Environment - SAFE, a Member of the Editorial Board, of AgroTech-Food Science, Technology and Environment, Malaysia, and a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Underutilized Legume (JUL), Nigeria, and a reviewer for several journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science (WoS). He holds a key position as an animal researcher with the University of Iowa’s Office of Animal Resources, United States.

Lukman Raimi is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), is dedicated Advocate for entrepreneurial excellence and innovation. Before joining UBD, he served as Assistant Professor and Chair of Entrepreneurship at the American University of Nigeria (AUN). At AUN, he also held roles as Coordinator of the Graduate Program in the School of Business & Entrepreneurship and as Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, showcasing his leadership skills. Dr. Raimi's passion for entrepreneurship extends to his prior role as Coordinator of Training at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development at Yaba College of Technology in Nigeria. His research interests are diverse, covering various aspects of entrepreneurship, including medical entrepreneurship and space tourism entrepreneurship.

Isa Olalekan Elegbede specializes in the sustainability of ocean and coastal resources. He is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences, the National Open University of Nigeria, and a full-time academic at the fisheries department, Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria. Before now, He lectured on marine sustainability at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU), Germany. He is also Co-chair of the GEO BON Blue Planet fisheries working group, Deputy Chair of the IUCN/CEESP/TGER, Switzerland, and a Future Earth Coast (FEC) Fellow. He is also a Central and South Atlantic Regional Scientific Research Working Group member, coordinating regional deep-sea research.

Nurudeen Babatunde Bamiro is Lecturer at Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria, and committed Advocate for economic literacy. He is a certified and associate member of the Institute of Islamic Finance Professionals (IIFP). His research interests encompass various aspects of development economics, economic literacy, and the economics of education. Furthermore, he serves as a valued member of editorial boards for esteemed publications such as the Malaysia Academy Journal of Management and Business Education and the Indonesian Jurnal Riset Akuntansi Mercu Buana of Accounting and Economics. His publications are indexed in reputable databases like Scopus and Google Scholar.