Neoliberal Bio-Economies? The Co-Construction of Markets and Natures /

• Main Author: Birch, Kean (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Science and Technology Studies.

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 en...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Neoliberalism
• 3. Neoliberalism and bio-economies
• 4. Background to emerging bio-economies
• 5. Imagining bio-economies
• 6. Constructing bio-economies
• 7. Legitimating bio-economies
• 8. Limits to bio-economies
• 9. Alternative Bio-economies
• 10. Conclusion.