Sustainable Transition towards Forest-Based Bioeconomy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Forestry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 2425
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bioeconomy; circular bioeconomy; natural resource economics; sustainability; sustainability transition; sustainable business; multi-method approaches
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The forest-based bioeconomy is a concept emphasizing the comprehensive role of forest ecosystems and innovative biomass-based products in the emergence of low-carbon economies increasing new employment opportunities and offering wide-spanning public benefits. The forest-based bioeconomy has a great influence on climate change and biodiversity loss, two crucial planetary boundaries of the defined nine dimensions. The forest-based bioeconomy contributes significantly to a sustainable transition of societies by providing regenerating resources for economies. Simultaneously, the accelerating demand and overconsumption of natural resources are leading to unpredictable phenomena in ecosystems influencing our lives both directly and indirectly.
Sustainable transition within the forest-based bioeconomy requires a better understanding of potential, new social and technological innovations, systemic sustainable transition mechanisms, sustainable transition within planetary boundaries, and positive and negative trade-offs within the safe operation space. For this Special Issue, authors are encouraged to submit studies that look at the future of forest-based bioeconomy, both quantitatively and qualitatively, from the viewpoints of sustainable operation space, sociotechnological innovations, sustainable business, sustainable value-creation, and sustainable transition in order to strengthen our understanding of systemic transition toward a sustainable forest-based bioeconomy.
Dr. Mirja Mikkilä
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Bio-based economy
- Futures studies
- Planetary boundaries
- Sustainable business
- Sustainability transition
- Systemic change
