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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewandowski, Iris

Contributor:

Lewandowski, Iris, editor.

Gaudet, Nicole, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology, Economic.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Cham Springer Nature 2018

Cham, Switzerland : Springer Open, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783319681528

3319681524

OCLC:

1066196768

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access