The emerging concept of bioeconomy offers several opportunities to address societal
challenges. The bioeconomy is mainly driven by advances in microbiology, which can be …

Food and feed has been produced from genetically modified (GM) crops for 25 years. It is
timely to review whether this technology has globally delivered the expected benefits and …

The EU's 2018 Bioeconomy Strategy Update and the European Green Deal recently
confirmed that the bioeconomy is high on the political agenda in Europe. Here, we propose …

The concept of sustainable development forms the basis for a wide variety of international
and national policy making. World population continues to expand at about 80 M people per …

Today's society relies heavily on fossil fuels as a main energy source. Global energy
demand increase, energy security and climate change are the main drivers of the transition …

The current emerging economy of the leather industry is primarily linear. Increasingly
rigorous legislative specifications for environmental preservation in developed countries …

Abstract The Western Corn Rootworm (WCR or Dvv., Diabrotica virgifera virgifera Le Conte)
was first detected in Europe in the early nineties in Serbia. Since then the beetle has spread …

The commercial production of herbicide tolerant (HT) canola began in Western Canada in
1997. With more than a decade of use, the actual farm-level environmental impact of HT …

The literature on real options shows that irreversibilities, uncertainties about future benefits
and costs, and the flexibility in decision making generate benefits and costs of delaying …

The widespread introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops may change the effect of
agriculture on the environment. The magnitude and direction of expected effects are still …