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The bioeconomy system

  • Provides a concise overall view of the status quo of the bioeconomy and its future developments

  • Explains where the opportunities and limitations of the bioeconomy lie

  • Practitioners from business, science, and politics explain how future problems are addressed

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
  2. Introduction to the Bioeconomy System

    • Daniela Thrän
    Pages 1-19
  3. Sub-systems of the Bioeconomy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. Sectors of the Bioeconomy

      • Johann Wackerbauer
      Pages 23-32
    3. Plant-Based Bioeconomy

      • Klaus Pillen, Anne-Laure Tissier, Ludger A. Wessjohann
      Pages 33-47
    4. Wood-Based Bioeconomy

      • Frank Miletzky, André Wagenführ, Matthias Zscheile
      Pages 49-65
    5. Livestock-based Bioeconomy

      • Wilhelm Windisch, Gerhard Flachowsky
      Pages 67-83
    6. Bioeconomy of Microorganisms

      • Manfred Kircher
      Pages 85-103
    7. Marine Bioeconomy

      • Charli Kruse
      Pages 105-122
    8. Waste and Residue-Based Bioeconomy

      • Andrea Schüch, Christiane Hennig
      Pages 123-144
    9. Digital Bioeconomy

      • Kathrin Rübberdt
      Pages 145-158
  4. Organisational Forms of the Bioeconomy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
    2. Actors in the Bioeconomy

      • Urs Moesenfechtel
      Pages 161-180
    3. Bioeconomy in North Rhine-Westphalia

      • Ulrich Schurr, Heike Slusarczyk
      Pages 195-203
    4. Bioeconomy in Central Germany

      • Joachim Schulze, Anne-Karen Beck
      Pages 205-214
    5. Bioeconomy in Baden-Württemberg

      • Annette Weidtmann, Nicolaus Dahmen, Thomas Hirth, Thomas Rausch, Iris Lewandowski
      Pages 215-227
    6. Bioeconomy in Bavaria

      • Benjamin Nummert
      Pages 229-242
    7. Bioeconomy Networks in Europe

      • Nora Szarka, Ronny Kittler
      Pages 243-255
  5. Framework Conditions and Enablers for the Bioeconomy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-258

About this book

This book is a concise overall view of the status quo of the bioeconomy and its future developments - in Germany and beyond. Numerous practitioners from business, science, civil society and politics show how the bioeconomy is addressing the global problems of the future. Based on renewable raw materials and energies, the bioeconomy is developing new products and processes with the aim of shaping a more ecologically and economically sustainable future. But can it succeed? What are its opportunities and limitations? Which framework conditions influence it? The book answers these questions with a systemic view of the bioeconomy and thus enables a quick orientation in this topic. This is additionally supported by numerous graphics. The book thus invites readers to help shape the future of the bioeconomy.

Keywords

  • bioeconomy
  • sustainability
  • Gouvernance
  • bioeconomy cluster
  • bioeconomy models
  • Bioeconomies
  • biotechnology

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department Bioenergie, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Daniela Thrän

  • BioökonomieInformationsBüro, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Urs Moesenfechtel

About the editors

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniela Thrän is Head of the Department of Bioenergy at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ (Leipzig site) and at the same time Head of Division "Bioenergy Systems" at the German Biomass Research Centre gemeinnützige GmbH - DBFZ in Leipzig. At the University of Leipzig, she holds the Chair of Bioenergy Systems. From 2012 to 2019, she was a member of the Bioeconomy Council and from 2012 to 2017, she was head of scientific accompanying research in the "Leading-Edge Cluster Bioeconomy".

M.A. Urs Moesenfechtel studied adult education and German language and literature in Cologne and Leipzig and has since worked at the interfaces of press and public relations, event organisation and education management. The mediation of environmental and nature protection topics forms thereby a emphasis of its work. For example, he worked at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ as press and public relations officer for the projects TEEB DE (Natural Capital Germany), BonaRes (Soil as a Sustainable Resource for the Bioeconomy) and NeFo (Network Forum on Biodiversity Research Germany). He managed the science communication of the accompanying research of the Leading-Edge Cluster Bioeconomy at the UFZ and the UFZBioeconomyInformationBureau (BIB). In the framework of the SYMOBIO project (Systemic Monitoring and Modelling of the Bioeconomy), he conducted several events with stakeholders of the German bioeconomy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The bioeconomy system

  • Editors: Daniela Thrän, Urs Moesenfechtel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64415-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-64414-0Published: 25 June 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-64417-1Published: 26 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-64415-7Published: 24 June 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 379

  • Number of Illustrations: 102 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general

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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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Hardcover Book USD 139.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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