1st ed. 2020 Edition
by Joachim Pietzsch (Editor), Stephan Meyer (Illustrator), Wolfgang Zettlmeier (Drawings), Ulrich Schurr (Contributor)
This book provides an interdisciplinary and comprehensible
introduction to bioeconomy. It thus provides basic knowledge for
understanding a transformation process that will shape the 21st century
and requires the integration of many disciplines and industries that
have had little to do with each other up to now. We are talking about
the gradual and necessary transition from the age of fossil fuels, which
began around 200 years ago, to a global economy based on renewable raw
materials (and renewable energies). The success of this transition is
key to coping with the challenge of climate change.
This book conceives the realization of bioeconomy as a threefold task – a scientific, an economic and an ecological one.
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Where does the biomass come from that we need primarily for feeding the
growing world population but also for future energy and material use?
How can it be processed in biorefineries and what role does
biotechnology play in this regard?
· Which aspects of innovation economics need to be considered, which economic aspects of value creation, competitiveness and customer acceptance are important?
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What conditions must a bioeconomy fulfil in order to enable a
sustainable development of life on earth? May it be regarded as a key to
further economic growth or shouldn’t it rather orient itself towards
the ideal of sufficiency?
By dealing with these questions from
the not necessarily consistent perspectives of proven experts, this book
provides an interdisciplinary overview of a dynamic field of research
and practice that raises more questions than answers and thus may
nurture the motivation of many more people to seriously engage for the
realization of a bioeconomy.
