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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.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The origin of biomass.- Chapter 3: Food security and healthy nutrition in the context of the bioeconomy.- Chapter 4: The use of biomass for the production of fuel and chemicals.- Chapter 5: The importance of biotechnology for bioeconomy.- Chapter 6: The bioeconomy from the point of view of the innovation economy.- Chapter 7: Bioeconomy as a circular and integrated system.- Chapter 8: Criteria for the success of the bioeconomy.- Chapter 9: The conditions of a sustainable bioeconomy.- Chapter 10: Bioeconomy - Key to unlimited economic and consumer growth?.
About the author
Joachim Pietzsch is an independent science writer and senior communications consultant based in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
Summary
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.
