Research attention is increasingly drawn on constructing a circular bioeconomy and
enhancing the value of material flows. Circular bioeconomy aims to achieve sustainable …

The increasing volume of resources demanded by a growing world population, and the
concomitant need for safeguarding nature, has led to the development of a second …

More than forty states worldwide currently pursue explicit political strategies to expand and
promote their bioeconomies. This paper assesses these strategies in the context of the …

Biodegradable polymers such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) can reduce pollution
caused by the increasing global polymer demand. Although industrial production of PHAs …

The UN Agenda 2030 deems the private sector pivotal in co-governing sustainability issues.
Despite intense research on corporate sustainability there is no explicit analysis of which …

Developments in technology have enabled envisioning the derivation of materials and
products from renewable biomass as an alternative to finite fossil-based resource …

The principle of cascading, the sequential and consecutive use of resources, is a potential
method to create added value in circular economy (CE) practices. Despite conceptual …

The overexploitation of resources, the increase of the world population and the trend of
consumption based on “use and throw away” is causing an increasing pressure on waste …

Over the last decade, bioeconomy policies, guided by integrated bioeconomy strategies,
have developed. This paper presents a systematic and comparative analysis of official …

Abstract In October 2018, the European Union (EU) launched an updated bioeconomy
strategy with the aim of encouraging the substitution of fossil carbon with biomass feedstock …