How should We Operationalize Bioeconomics for Strong Sustainability? Toward a Transdisciplinary and Systemic Approach in Line with a Georgescu-Roegen Epistemology

Pietro Beltramello and Jean-Philippe Bootz

Journal of Innovation Economics, 2022, vol. N° 38, issue 2, 63-91

Abstract: Strong sustainability has not been truly operationalized despite the fact that it is one of the major challenges facing society today. Thus, this work proposes a way to rediscover the bioeconomic epistemology of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen as an approach toward informing strong sustainability operationalizations. Through a literature review, this article demonstrates how various bioeconomic studies (stock-flow or fund-flow models, multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism (MuSIASEM), mainstream bioeconomy, etc.) fail to operationalize strong sustainability as it remains trapped either in normalization or marginalization. To overcome such limitations, a systemic and transdisciplinary approach of bioeconomic epistemology is proposed to fundamentally redefine the logic of development as a qualitative change driven by immaterial objectives that are defined by the main stakeholders. JEL Codes: O440, Q570.

Keywords: Bioeconomics; Georgescu-Roegen; Bioeconomy; Transdisciplinarity; Strong Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O44 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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