Is ‘Bio-Based’ Activity a Panacea for Sustainable Competitive Growth?

Philippidis, George; Robert, M'barek; Ferrari, Emanuele

doi:10.3390/en9100806

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“…The word “bioeconomy” and related terminology is increasingly mentioned within technical and policy documents and is gaining traction in public and media discourse, as it has been emphatically defined as “ panacea for sustainable competitive growth ” (Philippidis et al 2016 ). Not surprisingly, then, about 70% of the respondents reported to have heard about it and this percentage grows up to 100% for forestry students in FIN.…”

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Bioeconomy perception by future stakeholders: Hearing from European forestry students

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This article provides useful information for universities offering forestry programs and facing the growing demand for bioeconomy education. An explorative survey on bioeconomy perception among 1400 students enrolled in 29 universities across nine European countries offering forestry programs was performed. The data have been elaborated via descriptive statistics and cluster analysis. Around 70% of respondents have heard about the bioeconomy, mainly through university courses. Students perceive forestry as the most important sector for bioeconomy; however, the extent of perceived importance of forestry varies between countries, most significantly across groups of countries along a North–South European axis. Although differences across bachelor and master programs are less pronounced, they shed light on how bioeconomy is addressed by university programs and the level of student satisfaction with this. These differences and particularities are relevant for potential development routes towards comprehensive bioeconomy curricula at European forestry universities with a forestry focus.

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Bioeconomy perception by future stakeholders: Hearing from European forestry students

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“…Moreover, certain impacts, including the potential prices and cost structure for actors, potential substitution rates of fossil-based products, or required land use, may be important information that can be gathered using a systematic approach. In addition, the integration of such indicators into a model-based forward-looking analysis (e.g., [49,50]) may provide further insights regarding the potential diffusion and economic and environmental impacts of the bioeconomy.…”

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Monitoring Bioeconomy Transitions with Economic–Environmental and Innovation Indicators: Addressing Data Gaps in the Short Term

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Monitoring bioeconomy transitions and their effects can be considered a Herculean task, as they cannot be easily captured using current economic statistics. Distinctions are rarely made between bio-based and non-bio-based products when official data is collected. However, production along bioeconomy supply chains and its implications for sustainability require measurement and assessment to enable considered policymaking. We propose a starting point for monitoring bioeconomy transitions by suggesting an adapted framework, relevant sectors, and indicators that can be observed with existing information and data from many alternative sources, assuming that official data collection methods will not be modified soon. Economic–environmental indicators and innovation indicators are derived for the German surfactant industry based on the premise that combined economic–environmental indicators can show actual developments and trade-offs, while innovation indicators can reveal whether a bioeconomy transition is likely in a sector. Methodological challenges are discussed and low-cost; high-benefit options for further data collection are recommended.

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“…These elements constitute tools for the well-being of society. Development is not a consequence, but rather a state of things that are sought through time, regardless of the development paradigm assumed in each context [31][32][33].…”

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Tools for Measuring Energy Sustainability: A Comparative Review

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This paper is intended to perform a comparative and qualitative review among eight tools to measure energy sustainability. Therefore, it was necessary to create a theoretical and conceptual framework based on four criterias of selection and six categories of comparison. In this work, the conceptual bases that supported the research and the methodology created to carry out the comparative review will be presented. This analysis was based on the intrinsic concepts of energy sustainability of each of the reviewed tools with a critical qualitative analysis. Some conclusions shown through the conceptual framework developed that it was possible to apply an innovative methodology to qualitatively compare different tools to measure sustainability. The importance of this reflects the difficulty of conceptualizing the subjectivity of sustainable development, as shown throughout the paper, where it is often not possible to obtain a measurable result since the measured phenomenon is too complex to reduce it to a numerical value.

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Is ‘Bio-Based’ Activity a Panacea for Sustainable Competitive Growth?

Cited by 8 publications

References 15 publications

Bioeconomy perception by future stakeholders: Hearing from European forestry students

Bioeconomy perception by future stakeholders: Hearing from European forestry students

Monitoring Bioeconomy Transitions with Economic–Environmental and Innovation Indicators: Addressing Data Gaps in the Short Term

Tools for Measuring Energy Sustainability: A Comparative Review

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