The Bioeconomy: Delivering Sustainable Green Growth
by Davide Viaggi  (Author)

About the Author
Davide Viaggi teaches in the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciencesat the University of Bologna.

About this book
The "bioeconomy" is based on the idea of economic activity involving the sustainable exploitation of biological resources. This book illustrates the state of the art and perspectives in the development of the bioeconomy across the world, taking an economic and policy perspective, as well as identifying potential future pathways and issues for this subject. The first part of the book illustrates the current definitions, strategies, policy and economic information related to the bioeconomy in the world. The second describes current economic analysis and research effort in qualifying and understanding the economics of the bioeconomy. This includes the contribution of technology, research and innovation to the bioeconomy, driving forces and demand-side economics, supply side economics and matching demand and supply. The political economy of the bioeconomy, regulation, public policy and transitions are considered, and also the role of the bioeconomy to the economy, society, including growth, development and sustainability.

Brief contents
1 Introduction and Overview 1
    1.1 Introducing the Bioeconomy 1
    1.2 Bioeconomy in Economic Research 2
    1.3 Why this Book 4
    1.4 Scope of the Book 4
    1.5 Overview 5
2 What is the Bioeconomy 8
    2.1 Introduction and Overview 8
    2.2 Some History of the Bioeconomy 8
    2.3 Bioeconomy Definitions 11
    2.4 Relevance and Building Blocks of the Bioeconomy 13
    2.5 Bioeconomy and Biomass Flows 20
    2.6 Bioeconomy, Wastes, By-products and Circularity 21
    2.7 Limitations and Perspectives in Bioeconomy Statistics 21
    2.8 Overview of Country-level Bioeconomy Strategies and Policies 22
    2.9 Outlook 24
    2.10 Annex: Selected Country Examples 24
3 Technology and Innovation in the Bioeconomy 33
    3.1 Introduction and Overview 33
    3.2 Key Bioeconomy Technologies 33
    3.3 Complementary Fields and Technologies 41
    3.4 Some Specific Features of Bioeconomy Technologies 42
    3.5 Economic Representation of Bioeconomy Technologies 46
    3.6 Outlook 53
4 Approaches to (the Economics of) the Bioeconomy 59
    4.1 Introduction and Overview 59
    4.2 The Bioeconomy in the Economic System 60
    4.3 Bioeconomy-specific and Complementary Approaches 61
    4.4 Conceptualizing the Bioeconomy 71
    4.5 Outlook 75
5 Driving Forces and Demand-side Economics 79
    5.1 Introduction and Overview 79
    5.2 Major Driving Forces and Scenarios 79
    5.3 Individual Consumers in the Bioeconomy 82
    5.4 Aggregate/Collective Consumer Behaviour and the Bioeconomy 86
    5.5 Consumer–Citizens–Communities 88
    5.6 Selected Cases 89
    5.7 Outlook 91
6 Supply-side Economics 95
    6.1 Introduction and Overview 95
    6.2 Bioeconomy Production, Production Functions and Supply 96
    6.3 More on Behaviour 100
    6.4 Space, Heterogeneity and Circularity in Supply 103
    6.5 Supply System Organization 108
    6.6 Outlook 113
7 Matching Demand and Supply: Markets, Policies and Beyond 116
    7.1 Introduction and Overview 116
    7.2 Markets for Bioeconomy Products 117
    7.3 Policies 123
    7.4 Contracts, Integration and Organization in the Bio-based Value Web 134
    7.5 Institutions, Governance, Participation and Information 136
    7.6 International Dimensions: Cooperation and Management of Global Markets 137
    7.7 Outlook 138
8 The Political Economy of the Bioeconomy, Regulation, Public Policy and Transition 144
    8.1 Introduction and Overview 144
    8.2 The Positioning of Stakeholders 145
    8.3 Costs, Benefits and Uncertainty 146
    8.4 Dynamic Perspectives 147
    8.5 Local and Global Governance 147
    8.6 Vision and Imaginaries 148
    8.7 Transition Perspectives 148
    8.8 Political Economy and Value 148
    8.9 Outlook 149
9 The Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development 151
    9.1 Introduction and Overview 151
    9.2 Bioeconomy and Sustainability 152
    9.3 Economic Sustainability 153
    9.4 Social Sustainability 156
    9.5 Environmental and Resource Sustainability 158
    9.6 Outlook 163
10 Impact Evaluation and Management Tools 168
    10.1 Introduction and Overview 168
    10.2 Challenges in Tracing the Impacts of Bioeconomy Technologies 168
    10.3 Indicators 169
    10.4 Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing 172
    10.5 Investment Analysis 173
    10.6 Other Instruments 174
    10.7 Integration of Methods 175
    10.8 Evaluation Tools and Stakeholder Engagement 176
    10.9 Outlook 176
11 At the Boundary of Economics 180
    11.1 Introduction and Overview 180
    11.2 Logistics 180
    11.3 Geography 180
    11.4 Politics and Law 181
    11.5 Psychological and Sociological Aspects 183
    11.6 Perceptions, Discourses and Communication 184
    11.7 Philosophy and Ethics 184
    11.8 Outlook 185
12 Final Thoughts and Outlook 188
    12.1 Introduction 188
    12.2 A Biodiverse and Uncertain Bioeconomy Technology 188
    12.3 The Future of the Bioeconomy as a Political Choice 190
    12.4 The Role of Science and Economics 191
    12.5 Further Research on the Economics of the Bioeconomy 192
    12.6 Finally… 195
Index 197

Pages: 224
Publisher: CABI (January 31, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1786392755
ISBN-13: 978-1786392756