| Title | Environmental and Ecological Aspects in the Overall Assessment of Bioeconomy |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 20583 |
| Authors | Székács, A |
| Title | Environmental and Ecological Aspects in the Overall Assessment of Bioeconomy |
| Year | 2017 |
| Published | Journal Of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics, 30, 1 |
| Abstract | 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. |
| https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10806-017-9651-1.pdf |
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