Contextualization of the Bioeconomy Concept through Its Links with Related Concepts and the Challenges Facing Humanity
| Autor: | Carlos Garbisu Crespo, Naroa Garbisu, Leire Barañano Orbe, Miren Itziar Alcorta Calvo, Andrés Araujo de la Mata |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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020209 energy
media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development TJ807-830 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources Green economy green economy Political science 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering GE1-350 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Skepticism media_common Contextualization Ecological economics Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Interpretation (philosophy) Circular economy circular economy Environmental ethics sustainability sustainable development goals bio-based economy Environmental sciences Exchange of information Sustainability biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación instname Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 7746, p 7746 (2021) Addi: Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación Universidad del País Vasco |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su13147746 |
| Popis: | The concept of bioeconomy is a topic of debate, confusion, skepticism, and criticism. Paradoxically, this is not necessarily a negative thing as it is encouraging a fruitful exchange of information, ideas, knowledge, and values, with concomitant beneficial effects on the definition and evolution of the bioeconomy paradigm. At the core of the debate, three points of view coexist: (i) those who support a broad interpretation of the term bioeconomy, through the incorporation of all economic activities based on the production and conversion of renewable biological resources (and organic wastes) into products, including agriculture, livestock, fishing, forestry and similar economic activities that have accompanied humankind for millennia; (ii) those who embrace a much narrower interpretation, reserving the use of the term bioeconomy for new, innovative, and technologically-advanced economic initiatives that result in the generation of high-added-value products and services from the conversion of biological resources; and (iii) those who stand between these two viewpoints. Here, to shed light on this debate, a contextualization of the bioeconomy concept through its links with related concepts (biotechnology, bio-based economy, circular economy, green economy, ecological economics, environmental economics, etc.) and challenges facing humanity today is presented. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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