This report highlights the commonalities and disagreements between the reporting by Member States (MS) to the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) on the standards for Biological Quality elements in coastal waters, and the methodological standards...

This Thünen Working Paper presents the results of the research project "Joint Project: Expansion of a systematic monitoring of the bioeconomy - consolidation phase." The project aimed to further develop the monitoring concept for the German bioeconomy and to update initial monitoring results....

Policy monitoring frameworks allow decision makers to assess the performance and progress towards specific strategic objectives that reflect an overall vision. The bioeconomy consists of complex social, economic, and environmental systems. The EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System was developed by the...

In 2018, the European Commission defined the bioeconomy as a "multi-layered concept referring to the use of renewable biological resources from land and sea, like crops, forests, fish, animals and micro-organisms to produce food, materials and energy". It encompasses "all sectors and associated...

This report explores ways to boost stakeholder engagement in EU bioeconomy policy, a crucial step in shaping a sustainable and circular economy. After identifying key gaps and opportunities, the study proposes seven recommendations to enhance stakeholder involvement. By strengthening stakeholder...

Commission Decision of 25 February 2016 setting up a Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries, C(2016) 1084, OJ C 74, 26.2.2016, p. 4-10. The Commission may consult the group on any matter relating to marine and fisheries biology, fishing gear technology, fisheries economics,...

The innovation in the bioeconomy sectors is a key enabler for transitioning towards a carbon-neutral economy and complying with the objectives of the EU's Bioeconomy Strategy. Consequently, the EU-Bioeconomy Monitoring System places significant emphasis on indicators of research and innovation...

The escalating crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution necessitates urgent shifts in production and consump-tion patterns towards enhanced environmental efficiency (EE). Western governments, including the European Union (EU),advocate transitioning to a bioeconomy based on...

The main ingredient of this paper is the derivation of the generalized version of Hamilton's rule. This version is derived with the Generalized Price equation. The generalized version of Hamilton's rule generalizes the original rule, in the sense that it produces a set of rules; one rule for...

Ensuring a crisis-proof food supply has become a key political issue. In Germany, official spatial planning allows the use of priority and reserved areas to secure land for agricultural use and regional food supply. The focus should be particularly on climate-resilient areas that also have a...

The bioeconomy covers all sectors and systems that rely on biological resources (animals, plants, microorganisms and derived biomass, including organic waste), their functions and principles. Compiling a robust information or evidence base is an essential component of better policymaking and one...

Ecological networks (ENs) aim to accommodate production and conservation within landscapes by shaping the spatial scope of conservation policies based on ecological criteria. The environmental effectiveness of these networks has been extensively studied; however, it has rarely been linked to their...

This paper uses a model combining three strands within the bioeconomic literature: spatial management, pest and nuisance management, and enforcement under different ecological dispersal processes (i.e., sink-source versus density-dependent) to illustrate the dual management policy (i.e.,...

Offshore wind energy is rapidly expanding in the United States (U.S.). To responsibly develop wind energy, we need to address gaps in our knowledge of marine mammal habitat use, distribution, and response to wind energy development. Data collected by Protected Species Observers (PSOs; also...

Pacific salmon, the signature species of the Pacific Northwest, have declined across their range for well over a century, due to a myriad of human-caused effects on their habitat and the fish themselves. Restoration efforts—some successful, some halting—began earnest in the late 20th...

Climate change is anticipated to have long-term and pervasive effects on marine ecosystems, with cascading consequences to many ocean-reliant sectors. For the marine fisheries sector, these impacts can be further influenced by future socio-economic and political factors. Hence, raises the need...

The transition from a linear bio-based economy to a sustainable circular bioeconomy depends not only on the skills that the different actors of the innovation system can find, develop, and exploit internally, but also on the efficiency with which they can access external sources of knowledge and...

The analysis of the regional dimension of the bioeconomy is important due to its policy implications. The EU's Bioeconomy Strategy recognizes the potential contribution of the bioeconomy for the development of rural and remote areas. More recently, an increasing number of EU regions are...

Mit den politischen Konzepten der nachhaltigen Bioökonomie ist die Hoffnung auf Wirtschaftsformen verbunden, die zirkulär produzieren, erneuerbare Ressourcen nutzen sowie sozial gerechtere Zugänge zu Ressourcen ermöglichen. Die Diskurse zu solchen Konzepten zeigen vorhandene und neu...

Using the latest release of employment and value added numbers in the bioeconomy sectors, we conducted an analysis on the performance of the EU bioeconomy during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Our findings point to a possibly higher level of resilience of the bioeconomy sectors compared to the...

The article studies the diversity of models of sustainable bioeconomy by focusing on the productive strategies of the farmers who engage in it. To account for this diversity, we use the framework of analysis of Beckert’s socio-economics of capitalism in terms of compromises between four...

One of the greatest challenges imposed on society is the need for a new way of acting and thinking about economic and social development to enhance sustainability and embrace environmental causes. The principles of bioeconomy encourage the rational use of recyclable nutrients and the...

Financial and bioeconomic risks were evaluated for four large commercial Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) cage projects with production water volume (m 3 ) of 10 to 50 thousand m 3 (Small Volume, SV), 51 to 150 thousand m 3 (Medium Volume, MV), 151 to 300 thousand m 3 (Large Volume, LV) and ...

I propose an objective definition of money through a biological definition of cooperation, as opposed to altruism. I argue that these types of sociality are confused because they are not evaluated from a situated perspective of animal interactions. The theory of reciprocal altruism does not...