BookIris Lewandowski, editor ; in collaboration with Nicole Gaudet [and 4 more].
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.