In a globalized economy, the use of natural resources is determined by the demand of modern production and consumption systems, and by infrastructure development. Sustainable natural resource use will require good governance and management based on sound scientific information, data and indicators. There is a rich literature on natural resource management, yet the national and global scale and macro-economic policy making has been underrepresented. We provide an overview of the scholarly literature on multi-scale ...

The growing demand for wood to meet EU renewable energy targets has increasingly come under scrutiny for potentially increasing EU import dependence and inducing land use change abroad, with associated impacts on the climate and biodiversity. This article builds on research accounting for levels of primary timber consumption—e.g., toward forest footprints—and developing reference values for benchmarking sustainability—e.g., toward land use targets—in order to improve systemic monitoring of timber and forest use. ...

Der Pilotbericht analysiert wesentliche Merkmale und Trends der deutschen „biobasierten Ökonomie“, um die aktuellen Probleme, die Zukunftschancen und die Bedingungen für eine nachhaltige Bioökonomie aufzuzeigen. Um dies zu beurteilen, werden auch die globalen Auswirkungen der deutschen Bioökonomie betrachtet. Mit den Kapiteln biogene Stoffströme in Deutschland (Kap. 2), Sozioökonomische Entwicklung der Bioökonomie (Kap. 3), Entwicklung von Trends und Treibern der Bioökonomie (Kap. 4) und die ökologischen Fußabdrücke ...

This report assesses the main characteristics and trends of the German ‘bio-based economy’ in order to identify current problems, future chances and the needs for a sustainable bioeconomy. It includes global impacts of the German bioeconomy transition. A wide perspective is provided through the chapters: Biogenic material flows in Germany (Ch. 2); Socio-economic development of the bioeconomy in Germany (Ch. 3); Development of the trends and drivers of the bioeconomy Ch. 4); The environmental footprints of the German ...