Community Issues and the Bioeconomy Transition: Moving Independence from Imported Oil and Climate Change Up the Local Policy Agenda

Mark Edelman

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: There are many issues and some myths that are drivers of change in this transition. World hunger, biotechnology, food versus fuel, and indirect land use; organic, natural, local foods, obesity, nutrition, and food safety; housing, healthcare, credit institutions, and economic recovery; and others are among the issues being discussed. This working paper focuses on two of the key drivers that underlie much of the discussion at this conference and they are not likely to disappear from the agenda anytime soon. A framework for local policy decisions is developed for each issue using the alternatives and consequences approach.

Date: 2009-07-01
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