TY - CHAP
T1 - Modelling the bioeconomy
AU - Verkerk, Pieter Johannes
AU - Varacca, Alessandro
AU - Cardellini, Giuseppe
AU - Gonzalez-Martinez, Ana Rosa
AU - Hassegawa, Mariana
AU - van Leeuwen, Myrna
AU - Lovrić, Marko
AU - M’Barek, Robert
AU - Moiseyev, Alexander
AU - van Meijl, Hans
AU - Philippidis, George
AU - Pyka, Andreas
AU - Sckokai, Paolo
AU - Sturm, Viktoriya
AU - Vrachioli, Maria
AU - van Zeist, Willem Jan
PY - 2025/3/21
Y1 - 2025/3/21
N2 - Modelling is an important tool to support policy-making. A review of the existing bioeconomy modelling capacity indicates that most models focus on agriculture, forestry, and connected sectors of food, energy, and wood and paper products. Future development of bioeconomy modelling capacities should focus on including bio-based products such as textiles and plastics, and especially chemicals and pharmaceuticals. To address such gaps in existing capacities, the BioMonitor Model Toolbox has been developed; it is composed of five improved bioeconomy models to support policy-makers in executing consistent, coherent, and longer-term strategies with desirable consequences for multiple objectives. Further model development needs to consider key processes such as technological change (or innovation), circularity, consumer behaviour, climate change, and biodiversity. Whereas concepts like circularity could be included in existing models with reasonable effort, other important concepts require the development of new models that build on emerging modelling techniques.
AB - Modelling is an important tool to support policy-making. A review of the existing bioeconomy modelling capacity indicates that most models focus on agriculture, forestry, and connected sectors of food, energy, and wood and paper products. Future development of bioeconomy modelling capacities should focus on including bio-based products such as textiles and plastics, and especially chemicals and pharmaceuticals. To address such gaps in existing capacities, the BioMonitor Model Toolbox has been developed; it is composed of five improved bioeconomy models to support policy-makers in executing consistent, coherent, and longer-term strategies with desirable consequences for multiple objectives. Further model development needs to consider key processes such as technological change (or innovation), circularity, consumer behaviour, climate change, and biodiversity. Whereas concepts like circularity could be included in existing models with reasonable effort, other important concepts require the development of new models that build on emerging modelling techniques.
KW - Bio-based products
KW - Bioeconomy
KW - Modelling
U2 - 10.4337/9781800373495.00020
DO - 10.4337/9781800373495.00020
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:105004168006
SN - 9781800373488
SP - 251
EP - 282
BT - Handbook on the Bioeconomy
A2 - Viaggi, D.
PB - Edward Elgar
ER -
