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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265130703321

Autore

Lewandowski Iris

Titolo

Bioeconomy : shaping the transition to a sustainable, biobased economy / / Iris Lewandowski, editor ; in collboration with Nicole Gaudet [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer Nature, 2018

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer Open, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-319-68152-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 354 p. 165 illus., 139 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

333.9516

Soggetti

Biology, Economic

Sustainable development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- Part I: Bioeconomy Concepts and Research Methods -- Chapter 2: Context -- Chapter 3: Bioeconomy concepts -- Chapter 4: Core principles -- Chapter 4: Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in the Bioeconomy -- Part II: Knowledge Base for Biobased Value Chains -- Chapter 5:Biobased Resources and Value Chains -- Chapter 6: Primary Production -- Chapter 7: Processing of Biobased Resources -- Chapter 8: Markets, Sustainability management and Entrepreneurship.- Part III: Transition to a Sustainable Bioeconomy -- Chapter9:  Modelling and Tools Supporting the Transition to a Bioeconomy -- Chapter 10: Environmental Economics, the Bioeconomy and the Role of Government -- Chapter 11: Economic Growth, Development, and Innovation – The Transformation towards a Knowledge-based Bioeconomy -- Chapter 12: The Bioeconomist.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book defines the new field of "Bioeconomy" as the sustainable and innovative use of biomass and biological knowledge to provide food, feed, industrial products, bioenergy and ecological services. The chapters highlight the importance of bioeconomy-related concepts in public, scientific, and political discourse. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors



outline the dimensions of the bioeconomy as a means of achieving sustainability. The authors are ideally situated to elaborate on the diverse aspects of the bioeconomy. They have acquired in-depth experience of interdisciplinary research through the university’s focus on “Bioeconomy”, its contribution to the Bioeconomy Research Program of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, and its participation in the German Bioeconomy Council. With the number of bioeconomy-related projects at European universities rising, this book will provide graduate students and researchers with background information on the bioeconomy. It will  familiarize scientific readers with bioeconomy-related terms and give scientific background for economists, agronomists and natural scientists alike.