Overview
- Bioeconomy presented as a promising subject for the future
- Understandably explains the scientific, economic and ecological facets of the project
- Renowned contributors
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
· 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?· 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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Joachim Pietzsch is an independent science writer and senior communications consultant based in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bioeconomy for Beginners
Editors: Joachim Pietzsch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60390-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-60389-5Published: 07 March 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-60390-1Published: 06 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 214
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 168 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Biotechnology, Ecology