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Interest in the seaweed industry is growing rapidly across Europe, and seaweed farming is viewed as a forerunner of a sustainability transition with widespread local benefits. However, a new study from the University...

The BMS-Jobs&Growth dataset was created by JRC to monitor the socio-economic aspects of the EU Bioeconomy. It has been widely used since its first release in 2017. This report...

The TPI is a scoreboard that monitors and ranks countries based on their 4 transitions to fair and prosperous sustainability.

IEA Bioenergy Task42 (Biorefining in the Circular Economy) aims at enhancing the commercialisation and market development of biorefinery systems and the related technologies while considering environmental, social and economic...

Rebound effects have been historically studied through narrow framings which may overlook the complexity of sustainability challenges, sometimes leading to badly informed conclusions...

The second half of the 20th century has been characterised by the rural abandonment in several regions of the Mediterranean basin. The general collapse of traditional agriculture and livestock activities brought...

While global food chains, market competition, industrial processes and increasing productivity have turned agriculture into a profitable economic sector, it is also one of the biggest...

The conceptual framework of the EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System was constructed to assess the EU’s progress towards a circular and sustainable bioeconomy. It was envisioned to cover the three...

The Companion Modeling approach aims to stimulate learning and sharing of perceptions among several actors through the co-construction and use of a model, while the Integrated Assessment of Agricultural Systems...

Currently, social, environmental, and economic risks and chances of bioeconomy are becoming increasingly a subject of applied sustainability assessments. Based on life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology...