A Systematic Approach for Assessing and Managing the Urban Bioeconomy

Bezama, Alberto; Mittelstädt, Nora; Thrän, Daniela

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64969-2_18

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“…Social metabolisms transform a society's energetic and material inputs, integrate them into societal stocks or other socio-economic systems, and discharge them to the environment as wastes and emissions. Industrial and BE metabolisms are special cases of social metabolisms (Bezama et al 2021). However, this societal metabolism has no essential or eternal nature (Pichler et al 2017).…”

Section: Societal Relations To Naturementioning

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Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Sustainable Bioeconomy, Societal-Ecological Transformation and Beyond

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Bezama

Thrän

2023

Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management

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Decoupling the fulfillment of societal needs from an ever-increasing production of goods together with decoupling this sufficient production from negative environmental, social and economic impacts, is and will be the major challenge of our economic systems to avoid an even deeper socio-ecological crisis. The ascending bioeconomy practices have to be assessed with regard to their potential to provide a good life for all within planetary boundaries Addressing this, life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) is necessary to integrate social, environmental and economic sustainability assessments. However, LCSAs are still in their infancy and a series of practical problems can be traced back to a lack of sound sustainability concepts and applied political economy/ecology. We reflect on social, ecological and economic sustainability, our societal relations to nature and a necessary societal-ecological transformation in order to structure a systemic framework for holistic and integrated LCSA (HILCSA). This framework allows an implementation in openLCA, conducting the inventory and impact assessment with harmonized databases and more coherent results compared to previous approaches. For further development we identify questions of political economy/ecology as significant. The idea of a bioeconomy as well as systemic assessments is a question of the perception of ends and means of a societal transformation.

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Section: Societal Relations To Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Sustainable Bioeconomy, Societal-Ecological Transformation and Beyond

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Thrän

2023

Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management

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“…Other studies analysed the German wood-based bioeconomy network [26] and German-Danish marine biotechnology value chains [27]. In the context of urban areas, bioeconomy has been discussed with regard to an "urban bioeconomy metabolism" [28], green innovation areas [29], urban green infrastructure [30] and urban agriculture [30,31] as well as the circular economy, waste management, and environmental value creation [32][33][34]. Green infrastructure, urban farming, and biowaste valorisation are also main associations with the term "urban bioeconomy" [35].…”

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Bioeconomy Innovation Networks in Urban Regions: The Case of Stuttgart

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Boesino

Pyka

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For a successful transformation towards a sustainable bioeconomy, cooperative knowledge creation leading to innovations through research at the company and academic level are important. Urban regions are the centre of economic and research activities. The example of the region of Stuttgart, which aims to complement its mature industrial structure with new opportunities related to the knowledge-based bioeconomy, is an interesting case for the application of social network analysis to shed light on the dynamics of innovation networks to support the transformation of urban regions. As with smaller spatial levels of observation connectivity in network decreases, we find a scale-free network structure for the supra-regional network and a star-like network structure for the regional network, with two universities and one transfer-oriented research institutes at the core. While research collaborations beyond regional borders and across different industries foster knowledge co-creation, the central actors can be recognized as gatekeepers who dominantly influence knowledge flows. To potentially strengthen the resilience of the network, policy and industry associations serving as network facilitators can foster collaboration between periphery actors. The case of the Stuttgart region impressively illustrates the opportunities of the knowledge-based bioeconomy for urban regions and the complementary role traditional manufacturing sectors can take in the transformation towards higher degrees of sustainability.

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Urbane Bioökonomie als Bestandteil resilienter Stadtentwicklung

Bezama,

Hildebrandt,

Thrän

2023

Die Resiliente Stadt

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ZusammenfassungBetrachtet man die Bioökonomie aus einer Systemperspektive, so lassen sich die Zusammenhänge zwischen den Ressourcen und den Herstellungs- und Fertigungssektoren sowie deren Verbindung mit der Gesellschaft modellieren und verstehen. Ein besonderer Fall ist die Analyse von Städten, da sie die kleinste Systemeinheit darstellen, an der all diese Komponenten beteiligt sind. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, die Definition eines urbanen Bioökonomie-Stoffwechsels zu erörtern, der dazu beitragen kann, die Stoffströme innerhalb der Stadtgrenzen in Verbindung mit den biobasierten Ressourcen der Stadtregion adäquat zu managen und so eine resilientere Stadt zu schaffen.

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A Systematic Approach for Assessing and Managing the Urban Bioeconomy

Cited by 4 publications

References 40 publications

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Sustainable Bioeconomy, Societal-Ecological Transformation and Beyond

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Sustainable Bioeconomy, Societal-Ecological Transformation and Beyond

Bioeconomy Innovation Networks in Urban Regions: The Case of Stuttgart

Urbane Bioökonomie als Bestandteil resilienter Stadtentwicklung

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