Policy: Five cornerstones of a global bioeconomy

El-Chichakli, Beate; Braun, Joachim von; Lang, Christine; Barben, Daniel; Philp, Jim

doi:10.1038/535221a

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“…Specifically, positive sustainable development opportunities are variously attributed to enhancing: global [167], national, regional [176,181,186], local and SME scales of the bioeconomy [168,187], as well as specific bioeconomic sectors [188,189]. In additon, a spectrum of industry reporting and academic literature is now emerging around keynote organisations [166], strategies, technologies [169,175], production [190] and product [174,190] level bioeconomy initiatives.…”

Section: Zero Waste: Formation Convergence Circularity and Critiquementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In rejecting the "concept of waste" [41] and seeking to loop the "technosphere back on to itself" [162] industrial ecology can be seen as combining a bio-mimicry of natural systems [19] and the syntax of recycling, in progressing the "ultimate industrial ecology goal of zero waste" [7,163]. Similarly, the discourse and practice attributed to the global bioeconomy movement shares in and illustrates the ubiquity, ideal, and rhetoric (i.e., "green", "cycles", "zero", "nature", etc) of this sustainability construct [164][165][166][167].…”

Section: Zero Waste: Formation Convergence Circularity and Critiquementioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

Hannon

Zaman

2018

Urban Science

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Abstract:The evolving phenomenon of zero waste encompasses the theory, practice, and learning of individuals, families, businesses, communities, and government organisations, responding to perceptions of crisis and failure around conventional waste management. The diverse and growing body of international zero waste experience, can be portrayed as both, an entirely new and alternative waste management paradigm, and or, interpreted as overlapping, extending, and synergetic with a general evolution towards more sustainable waste/resource management practices. Combining the terms zero and waste provokes creative, intellectual, and pragmatic tensions, which provide a contemporary axis for necessary debate and innovation in this sphere of resource management. This commentary draws on an interdisciplinary perspective and utilises some elements of the critique of zero waste, as a lens to examine and better understand this heterogeneous global community of practice. In particular, how the concept and implementation of a zero waste goal can increase community engagement and be a catalyst for the design and management of a more circular urban metabolism and hence, more adaptive, resilient, and sustainable future (zero waste) cities.

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Section: Zero Waste: Formation Convergence Circularity and Critiquementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Zero Waste: Formation Convergence Circularity and Critiquementioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

Hannon

Zaman

2018

Urban Science

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“…First, while there is now a growing literature discussing the bio-economy [21,[30][31][32], much of it only focuses on certain jurisdictions or jurisdictional examples-especially the European Union (EU) and its member states-and certain policy actors-especially government actors. There is, therefore, a need to examine a broader array of bio-economy strategies and their constitutive elements and actors in depth.…”

Section: Imagined Futures: Policy Visions and Policy Frameworkmentioning

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Emergent Imaginaries and Fragmented Policy Frameworks in the Canadian Bio-Economy

Birch

2016

Sustainability

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Climate change means that countries like Canada need to find suitable transition pathways to overcome fossil-fuel dependence; one such pathway is the so-called 'bio-economy'. The bio-economy is a term used to define an economic system in which biological resources (e.g., plants) form the basis of production and production processes. For example, it would involve the replacement of petroleum energy, inputs, chemicals, and products with bioenergy, biological inputs, bio-chemicals, and bio-products. A number of countries and jurisdictions have established policy strategies in order to promote and support the development of a bio-economy, exemplified by the European Union where the bio-economy represents a key pillar in its broader Horizon 2020 strategy. Other countries, like Canada, do not yet have an over-arching bio-economy strategy, but have a series of diverse, and often competing, policy visions and frameworks. It is useful to analyse countries like Canada in order to understand how these policy visions and policy frameworks are co-constituted, and what this might mean for the development of an over-arching bio-economy strategy. This raises a number of questions: How is the bio-economy imagined by different social actors? How are these imaginaries and policy frameworks co-produced?

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“…economically measurable, but neglecting the costs of natural resources-depletion), while creating less ''useful'' by-products. For a real transition a true conversion to the principles of ecological economics (Costanza et al 1997(Costanza et al , 2015Daly and Farley 2011;Baveye et al 2013), reliance on biomimicry to support ecological innovations instead of exploitative technological approaches (Blok and Gremmen 2016), and the abandonment of the economic growth concept (El-Chichakli et al 2016) is needed. Without a conceptually improved, ecology-based assessment and implementation, bioeconomy will remain a substantially improved, yet fundamentally equivalent version to unsustainable resource-intensive chemical technologies.…”

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Environmental and Ecological Aspects in the Overall Assessment of Bioeconomy

Székacs

2017

J Agric Environ Ethics

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Bioeconomy solutions potentially reduce the utilization demand of natural resources, and therefore, represent steps towards circular economy, but are not per se equivalent to sustainability. Thus, production may remain to be achieved against losses in natural resources or at other environmental costs, and materials produced by bioeconomy are not necessarily biodegradable. As a consequence, the assumption that emerging bioeconomy by itself provides an environmentally sustainable economy is not justified, as technologies do not necessarily become sustainable merely through their conversion to using renewable resources for their production. A source of the above assumption is that the utility of bioeconomy is mostly assessed in interaction between technology developers and economists, resulting in biased assessment with private commercial technology benefits being included, but environmental costs, especially longer term ones, not being sufficiently considered in the economic models. A possible solution to this conceptual contradiction may come from bioethics, as a strong concept in environmental ethics is that no technological intervention can be imposed on nature beyond its receptive capacity. To achieve a better balanced analysis of bioeconomy, environmental and ecological, as well as non-economic social aspects, need to be included in the overall assessment.

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Policy: Five cornerstones of a global bioeconomy

Cited by 223 publications

References 4 publications

Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

Emergent Imaginaries and Fragmented Policy Frameworks in the Canadian Bio-Economy

Environmental and Ecological Aspects in the Overall Assessment of Bioeconomy

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