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Handbook on the Bioeconomy
Providing a comprehensive account of the latest research and thinking on the bioeconomy, Davide Viaggi brings together expert authors to reflect on the economics of using renewable biological resources to produce bio-based materials, food, energy and more. The Handbook analyses the evolving concept of the bioeconomy and its potential as a solution to major global societal and sustainability challenges, including food security, ecosystem management, the limits to growth and combating climate change and pollution.
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Providing a comprehensive account of the latest research and thinking on the bioeconomy, Davide Viaggi brings together expert authors to reflect on the economics of using renewable biological resources to produce bio-based materials, food, energy and more, through a wide set of technological pathways including biotechnology. The Handbook analyses the evolving concept of the bioeconomy and its potential as a solution to major global societal and sustainability challenges, including food security, ecosystem management, the limits to growth and combating climate change and pollution.
Chapters explore topics including bioeconomy strategies and policies, the demand and supply of biomass and bioeconomy products and innovation systems. Authors examine the bioeconomy’s links with sustainability, the circular economy and ecosystem services, and education to build skills and change behaviours. The Handbook also highlights the importance of economic modelling and of a system dynamics approach to investigate structural transformation.
Mapping potential pathways for future research, the Handbook on the Bioeconomy is an essential resource for scholars and students of agricultural and food economics, environmental, energy and resource economics and the economics of innovation. Students of public policy, sustainability and societal impacts of climate change will also find it beneficial.
Chapters explore topics including bioeconomy strategies and policies, the demand and supply of biomass and bioeconomy products and innovation systems. Authors examine the bioeconomy’s links with sustainability, the circular economy and ecosystem services, and education to build skills and change behaviours. The Handbook also highlights the importance of economic modelling and of a system dynamics approach to investigate structural transformation.
Mapping potential pathways for future research, the Handbook on the Bioeconomy is an essential resource for scholars and students of agricultural and food economics, environmental, energy and resource economics and the economics of innovation. Students of public policy, sustainability and societal impacts of climate change will also find it beneficial.
Critical Acclaim
‘The bioeconomy is a new and rapidly emerging field that requires the exploration of evolving concepts, ideas, definitions and measurement issues to stimulate further research and application. This book is a tour de force. Its 16 complementary chapters written by highly qualified experts should be recommended reading, not just for those new to the field but for expert practitioners.’
– Uma Lele, Former Senior Advisor, the World Bank; President of International Association of Agricultural Economists 2021–2024
‘This Handbook edited by Professor Davide Viaggi presents the main features of the bioeconomy as a dynamic and evolving meta-sector, proposing solutions to the challenges of local and global impacts of climate change, pollution and ecosystems and biodiversity degradation, as well as the evolving societal needs for food and other goods. It is an excellent Handbook, particularly for its transdisciplinary economic view of the bioeconomy.’
– Fabio Fava, University of Bologna and National Bioeconomy Coordination Board, CNBBSV, Presidency of Council of Ministers, Italy
‘I welcome this new book as a much-needed and well-structured set of original chapters about the bioeconomy from a socioeconomic perspective. It digs into relevant topics, spanning from measurement problems to consumers and supply chain issues, touching base on circularity, innovation and educational matters. Modelling techniques are introduced as valuable tools for disentangling systemic complexity.’
– Piergiuseppe Morone, Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
– Uma Lele, Former Senior Advisor, the World Bank; President of International Association of Agricultural Economists 2021–2024
‘This Handbook edited by Professor Davide Viaggi presents the main features of the bioeconomy as a dynamic and evolving meta-sector, proposing solutions to the challenges of local and global impacts of climate change, pollution and ecosystems and biodiversity degradation, as well as the evolving societal needs for food and other goods. It is an excellent Handbook, particularly for its transdisciplinary economic view of the bioeconomy.’
– Fabio Fava, University of Bologna and National Bioeconomy Coordination Board, CNBBSV, Presidency of Council of Ministers, Italy
‘I welcome this new book as a much-needed and well-structured set of original chapters about the bioeconomy from a socioeconomic perspective. It digs into relevant topics, spanning from measurement problems to consumers and supply chain issues, touching base on circularity, innovation and educational matters. Modelling techniques are introduced as valuable tools for disentangling systemic complexity.’
– Piergiuseppe Morone, Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Contents
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Bioeconomy
2 Defining and monitoring the bioeconomy – a socioeconomic
perspective
3 The political economy of the bioeconomy
4 Bioeconomy visions, strategies, policies, and governance across different
world regions
5 Consumer adoption of bioeconomy products
6 Supply of bioeconomy products
7 Accelerating the bioeconomy and the innovation process with the
emergent concept of biofoundries
8 Innovation mechanisms in the bioeconomy
9 International innovation systems for the bioeconomy
10 What can the bioeconomy contribute to the achievement of higher
degrees of sustainability? From substitution to structural change
to transformation
11 Circularity and bioeconomy: towards a circular bioeconomy
12 Bioeconomy and ecosystem services
13 Modelling the bioeconomy
14 Modelling the Bioeconomy using system dynamics approaches
15 Education and awareness in the bioeconomy
16 Economics of the bioeconomy: reflections on conceptual challenges
and pathways
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Bioeconomy
2 Defining and monitoring the bioeconomy – a socioeconomic
perspective
3 The political economy of the bioeconomy
4 Bioeconomy visions, strategies, policies, and governance across different
world regions
5 Consumer adoption of bioeconomy products
6 Supply of bioeconomy products
7 Accelerating the bioeconomy and the innovation process with the
emergent concept of biofoundries
8 Innovation mechanisms in the bioeconomy
9 International innovation systems for the bioeconomy
10 What can the bioeconomy contribute to the achievement of higher
degrees of sustainability? From substitution to structural change
to transformation
11 Circularity and bioeconomy: towards a circular bioeconomy
12 Bioeconomy and ecosystem services
13 Modelling the bioeconomy
14 Modelling the Bioeconomy using system dynamics approaches
15 Education and awareness in the bioeconomy
16 Economics of the bioeconomy: reflections on conceptual challenges
and pathways
