Bioeconomy
Shaping the Transition to a Sustainable, Biobased Economy
Published on 6. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 356 pages
978-3-319-88555-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 universitiesrising, 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.
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 universitiesrising, 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.
More details
Edition
Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
29 s/w Abbildungen, 135 farbige Abbildungen
VI, 356 p. 164 illus., 135 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
684 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-88555-1 (9783319885551)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-68152-8
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
02/2018
Springer
€58.84
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Person
Iris Lewandowski
holds the chair for Biobased Products and Energy Crops at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. She is head of the international Master Course "Bioeconomy" at the University of Hohenheim, is a member of the Bavarian Expert Panel on Bioeconomy and leads and co-ordinates national and EU-funded bioeconomy research projects. She has previously worked as Global Biomass R&D Program Manager at Shell Global Solutions, Amsterdam and as Senior Biomass Researcher at the University of Utrecht, both in the Netherlands. Her research interest primarily focuses on sustainable biomass supply systems and the development of biobased value chains. She has published 66 peer-reviewed papers and completed work on several book chapters relating to bioenergy and perennial biomass crops. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journals "Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery" and "GCB Bioenergy".
Content
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.