Call for papers "Special Issue Sustainabilty": Making the Transition to a Circular Bioeconomy Sustainable and Inclusive  [03.03.20]

The journal Sustainability is currently running a Special Issue entitled "Making the Transition to a Circular Bioeconomy Sustainable and Inclusive".  Prof. Dr. Piergiuseppe Morone, Prof. Dr. Stéphane Lhuillery, Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Mazzanti and Prof. Dr. Andreas Pyka are serving as Guest Editors for this issue.

The bioeconomy and the circular economy both aim at defining new and more sustainable production and consumption models, able to reduce to a minimum the carbon footprint of human activities. Both the circular economy and the bioeconomy share the principle of zeroing the use of fossil carbon through (1) eco-efficiency in production and consumption (the circular economy approach) and (2) fossil carbon substitution with bio-based carbon (the bioeconomy approach). These are different but complementary approaches, and in this sense, the bioeconomy adds a green pathway to the circular economy. Moreover, the cascading use of resources strengthens the link between these two concepts, binding them into a new concept of the circular bioeconomy. As stated in EU policy (2018), the circular bioeconomy may be a good channel to put forward sustainable new production and consumption models (Schaltegger et al., 2016; Bolton and Hannon, 2016; Inigo and Albareda, 2019). However relevant, the interplay between these two dimensions (the circular economy and bio-based products) remains a concept that is under-investigated, as is the role that different players may play in the transition.

To shed new light on how a circular bioeconomy may be achievable, this Special Issue calls for high-quality papers, aiming at investigating the role of all actors involved in the transition from all possible angles and through a large array of perspectives and methodologies. This will enrich our understanding and provide policy guidance.

For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Making_the_Transition_to_a_Circular_Bioeconomy_Sustainable_and_Inclusive The submission deadline is 15 March 2021. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (sustainability@mdpi.com). Sustainability is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. Article Processing Charges of CHF 1800 (APC) apply to accepted papers. You may be entitled to a discount if you have previously received a discount code or if your institute is participating in the MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), for more information see: www.mdpi.com/about/ioap. For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/instructions).

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