Building Supply Chains to Create a Climate-Smart Circular Bioeconomy

David Zilberman, Jonathan Tillinghast () and Sadie Shoemaker ()
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Jonathan Tillinghast: Texas A&M University, Department of Agricultural Economics
Sadie Shoemaker: University of California, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Chapter Chapter 4 in Handbook of Circular Bioeconomy, 2026, pp 39-55 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The twenty-first century presents significant environmental challenges that demand innovative energy and material production approaches. A Climate-Smart Circular Bioeconomy (CSB) uses renewable resources to integrate sustainability, economic growth, and rural development using renewable resources. This chapter explores the development of CSB, emphasizing the role of supply chains in converting biomass feedstocks into various products. The analysis highlights the interplay between innovation and product supply chains and the potential of bioeconomy sectors, such as white, blue, green, and brown supply chains. Overcoming anti-science attitudes, including banning biotechnology and climate change denial, will accelerate the development of the CSB. It will benefit from policies including global public investment in research and development, science-based regulations, carbon pricing, and subsidies for introducing new technologies.

Keywords: Supply chains; Innovation; Technology diffusion; Profitability; Risk management; Heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-07112-5_4

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