Can innovations in business change society? Can innovations in society change business? These two questions have become critically urgent in recent years, but are rarely considered together. 'Business Models for Sustainability Transitions' therefore asks, can contemplating both concepts together result in a flourishing, sustainable future? Technology alone cannot save us. We cannot consciously consume our way out of trouble. This book represents a start at bridging the dynamic world of business model innovation with the constant and unprecedented transitions underway in the world around us. For researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, the coupling of the two questions has the potential to unlock answers to our grand global challenges with responses that are at the same time rapid and enduring. This work offers unique and considered glimpses into what it may take to harness wide-ranging innovations for the collective good.

Can innovations in business change society? Can innovations in society change business? These two questions have become critically urgent in recent years, but are rarely considered together. 'Business Models for Sustainability Transitions' therefore asks, can contemplating both concepts together result in a flourishing, sustainable future? Technology alone cannot save us. We cannot consciously consume our way out of trouble. This book represents a start at bridging the dynamic world of business model innovation with the constant and unprecedented transitions underway in the world around us. For researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, the coupling of the two questions has the potential to unlock answers to our grand global challenges with responses that are at the same time rapid and enduring. This work offers unique and considered glimpses into what it may take to harness wide-ranging innovations for the collective good.

Dieses Buch beschaftigt sich mit Biokraftstoffen und Biokraftstoffprojekten.

Die Autoren zeigen auf, welche rechtlichen, agrarischen, okologischen und okonomischen Rahmenbedingungen von Biokraftstoffen beachtet werden mussen. Die Betrachtung dieser Rahmenbedingungen und weiterer eher anlagenbezogener Faktoren ermoglicht es dann, Ruckschlusse auf die Realisierung von Biokraftstoffvorhaben zu ziehen.

Besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf den sensiblen Themenkomplex der Nachhaltigkeit von Biokraftstoffen gerichtet. Die anhaltende Diskussion unerwunschter sozialer, okologischer und okonomischer Effekte hat zu neuen und bislang nicht abschliessend definierten gesellschaftlichen und politischen Anspruchen an die Biokraftstoffindustrie gefuhrt.
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