The Circular Bioeconomy
Theories and Tools for Economists and Sustainability Scientists

The book offers a unique overview of the circular bioeconomy and its potential contribution to fostering sustainability globally.

Piergiuseppe Morone (Author), Dalia D'Amato (Author), Nicolas Befort (Author), Gülşah Yilan (Author)

9781009232593, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 November 2023

200 pages, 25 b/w illus. 11 tables
24.2 x 17 x 1 cm, 0.348 kg

Interest in issues surrounding sustainable production-consumption systems and alternatives to fossil fuels is booming. The circular bioeconomy is currently mainstreamed in policy-making, industry and academia as an important part of the solution to the climate crisis and towards the creation of more sustainable economies. Based on the University-level teaching and research experience of the four authors in Italy, Finland, and France, this textbook fills an important gap in the literature by providing an in-depth and unique guide to the circular bioeconomy. The chapters critically discuss the potential contribution of a circular bioeconomy to fostering societal and organizational transformations towards sustainability globally. This timely book joins a suite of important new titles on sustainability, environmental and ecological economics.

1. The historical origins of the bioeconomy
2. Emerging bioeconomy narratives
3. The bioeconomy, the green economy and the circular economy: a comparative overview
4. Environmental economics and the bioeconomy
5. Sustainability transition and the bioeconomy
6. The role of bioeconomy towards safe and just sustainability transformations
7. LCA, LCC and S-LCA applied to the bioeconomy
8. Innovation systems and global value chains in the bioeconomy
9. Monitoring progress towards a sustainable and just bioeconomy.

Subject Areas: Environmental economics [KCN]