Titre : The sustainability of the bioeconomy and bio-based value chains: tools and issues 

Auteurs : Aliénor de Rouffignac
, Stéphanie Gast
, Blandine Laperche
, Marie-France Vernier,  

Revue : Technology and Innovation 

Numéro : Issue 1 

Volume : 9 

Date : 2024/01/8 

DOI : 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2024.1063 

ISSN : 2399-8571 

Résumé : The bioeconomy, in its ambition to replace fossil carbon by renewable carbon, is structured by the creation of bio-based value chains. However, the organic origin of a value chain does not guarantee its sustainability. By considering the value chain as a meso-system, this article explores how sustainability, whether considered strong or weak, is taken into account in in the academic literature on the bioeconomy and bio-based value chains. Based on the lack of simultaneous integration of social, environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability and the small amount of work analyzing value chains in a holistic way, we propose to set up a methodology to analyze and build sustainable bio-based value chains based on the principles of eco-design and life cycle assessment, using the example of the creation of a borage micro value chain in the Hauts de France. 

Éditeur : ISTE OpenScience