The Potential of Bioeconomic Innovations to Contribute to a Social-Ecological Transformation: A Case Study in the Livestock System

• Published in: Journal of agricultural & environmental ethics Vol. 34; no. 4
• Main Authors: Friedrich, Jonathan, Bunker, Ingrid, Uthes, Sandra, Zscheischler, Jana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.08.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agricultural Economics; Animal production; Biodiversity; Biodiversity loss; Case studies; Climate change; Education; Embedding; Environmental ethics; Ethical standards; Ethics; Evolutionary Biology; Innovations; Land use; Livestock; Philosophy; Plant Sciences; Sustainability; Sustainable use; The Normative Dimension of Transformations towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy – Expanding the Economic Perspective; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Transformations; Manure; Transdisciplinary; Social sciences; Sustainability; Agriculture; Bioeconomy; Social change

Environmental crises, which are consequences of resource-intensive lifestyles and are characterized to a large extent by both a changing climate and a loss of biodiversity, stress the urgent need for a global social-ecological transformation of the agro-food system. In this regard, the bioeconomy an...