This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book defines the new field of
Bioeconomy as the sustainable and innovative use of biomass and biological knowledge to provide
food feed industrial products bioenergy and ecological services. The chapters highlight the
importance of bioeconomy-related concepts in public scientific and political discourse. Using
an interdisciplinary approach the authors outline the dimensions of the bioeconomy as a means
of achieving sustainability.The authors are ideally situated to elaborate on the diverse
aspects of the bioeconomy. They have acquired in-depth experience of interdisciplinary research
through the university's focus on Bioeconomy its contribution to the Bioeconomy Research
Program of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg and its participation in the German
Bioeconomy Council.With the number of bioeconomy-related projects at European universities
rising this book will provide graduate students and researchers with background information on
the bioeconomy. It will familiarize scientific readers with bioeconomy-related terms and give
scientific background for economists agronomists and natural scientists alike.
