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Neoliberal Bio-Economies?

2018-07-04 Social Science
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Release : 2018-07-04
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Neoliberal Bio-Economies? by : Kean Birch

Download or read book Neoliberal Bio-Economies? written by Kean Birch. This book was released on 2018-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Kean Birch analyses the co-construction of markets and natures in the emerging bio-economy as a policy response to global environmental change. The bio-economy is an economic system characterized by the use of plants and other biological materials rather than fossil fuels to produce energy, chemicals, and societal goods. Over the last decade or so, numerous countries around the world have developed bio-economy strategies as a potential transition pathway to a low-carbon future. Whether this is achievable or not remains an open question, one which this book seeks to answer. In addressing this question, Kean Birch draws on over ten years of research on the bio-economy around the world, but especially in North America. He examines what kinds of markets and natures are being imagined and constructed in the pursuit of the bio-economy, and problematizes the idea that this is being driven by neoliberalism and the neoliberalization of nature(s).

Biological Economies

2016-01-22 Nature
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Release : 2016-01-22
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Biological Economies by : Richard Le Heron

Download or read book Biological Economies written by Richard Le Heron. This book was released on 2016-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be summarized as: ‘more than human’ approaches to economic life; a ‘post-structural political economy’ of food and agriculture; and calls for more ‘enactive’, performative research approaches. This volume describes the genealogy of such approaches, drawing on the reflective insights of more than five years of international engagement and research. It demonstrates the kinds of new work being generated under these approaches and provides a means for exploring how they should be all understood as part of the same broader need to review theory and methods in the study of food, agriculture, rural development and economic geography. This radical collective approach is elaborated as the Biological Economies approach. The authors break out from traditional categories of analysis, reconceptualising materialities, and reframing economic assemblages as biological economies, based on the notion of all research being enactive or performative.

The New Biological Economy

2018-10-11 Business & Economics
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Release : 2018-10-11
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis The New Biological Economy by : Eric Pawson

Download or read book The New Biological Economy written by Eric Pawson. This book was released on 2018-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century, New Zealand has built its economy through a series of commodity-based booms – from wood and wool to beef and butter. Now the country faces new challenges. By doubling down on dairy farms, aren’t New Zealanders destroying the clean rivers and natural reputation upon which the country’s primary exports (and tourism) are based? And in a world where value is increasingly rooted in capital- and technology-intensive industries, can countries dependent on agriculture like New Zealand really sustain its high living standards by growing crops? This book takes readers out on to farms, orchards and vineyards, and inside the offices and factories of processors and exporters, to show how innovative New Zealanders are answering these challenges by building The New Biological Economy. From Icebreaker clothing to Mr Apple fruit exports, from milk and merino wool to wine and tourism, from high-end Berlin restaurants to the shelves of Sainsbury’s, innovative companies are creating high-value, unique products, rooted in particular places, and making pathways to the niche markets where they can realise that value. The New Biological Economy poses key questions. Do dairy and tourism have a sustainable future? Can the primary industries keep growing without destroying the natural world? Does the future of New Zealand lie in high tech or in the innovations of a land-based economy?

The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology

2016 Business & Economics
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Release : 2016
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology by : John Komlos

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology written by John Komlos. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology provides an extensive and insightful overview of how economic conditions affect human well-being and how human health influences economic outcomes. The book addresses both macro and micro factors, as well as their interaction, providing new understanding of complex relationships and developments in economic history and economic dynamics. Among the topics explored is how variation in height, whether over time, among different socioeconomic groups, or in different locations, is an important indicator of changes in economic growth and economic development, levels of economic inequality, and economic opportunities for individuals.

Sociobiology and Bioeconomics

2013-03-09 Business & Economics
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Release : 2013-03-09
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Sociobiology and Bioeconomics by : Peter Koslowski

Download or read book Sociobiology and Bioeconomics written by Peter Koslowski. This book was released on 2013-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of evolution and Neo-Darwinian biological theory extend their analysis in sociobiology from the life sciences and the animal societies to human societies. Sociobiology as a unifying theory of the social interaction within and between species has led to an integration of economic analysis into biology. The economy of nature has become the subject of bioeconomics which in turn transferred biological analysis to the human economy. Evolution, competition, selection, and cooperation are phenomena common to the economy of nature and human economy. The inclusion of economic and cultural theory in evolution theory raises the question whether the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis with its exclusive concern with somatic heredity is able to incorporate developmental systems of the human economy and of cultural heredity. A new synthesis of the natural and the social sciences is in the making.

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