The Circular Bioeconomy
Interest in issues surrounding sustainable production-consumption systems and alternatives to fossil fuels is booming. The circular bioeconomy is currently mainstreamed in policy-making, industry and academia as an important part of the solution to the climate crisis and towards the creation of more sustainable economies. Based on the University-level teaching and research experience of the four authors in Italy, Finland, and France, this textbook fills an important gap in the literature by providing an in-depth and unique guide to the circular bioeconomy. The chapters critically discuss the potential contribution of a circular bioeconomy to fostering societal and organizational transformations towards sustainability globally. This timely book joins a suite of important new titles on sustainability, environmental and ecological economics.
- Includes learning objectives, and take-home messages that summarize the key concepts for each chapter, providing a snapshot of the most important concepts
- Uses exercises and online resources to make each chapter interactive and hands-on
- Uses ordinary-language to make the theory more accessible to readers with different backgrounds
Product details
October 2023Adobe eBook Reader
9781009232562
0 pages
25 b/w illus. 11 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. The historical origins of the bioeconomy
- 2. Emerging bioeconomy narratives
- 3. The bioeconomy, the green economy and the circular economy: a comparative overview
- 4. Environmental economics and the bioeconomy
- 5. Sustainability transition and the bioeconomy
- 6. The role of bioeconomy towards safe and just sustainability transformations
- 7. LCA, LCC and S-LCA applied to the bioeconomy
- 8. Innovation systems and global value chains in the bioeconomy
- 9. Monitoring progress towards a sustainable and just bioeconomy.