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  • 1 - The Historical Origins of the Bioeconomy

  • from Part I
  • Piergiuseppe Morone, Unitelma Sapienza, Dalia D'Amato, Finnish Environment Institute (Suomen Ympäristökeskus - SYKE), Nicolas Befort, NEOMA BS, Gülşah Yilan, Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome
  • Book:
    The Circular Bioeconomy
    Published online:
    26 October 2023
    Print publication:
    09 November 2023, pp 3-14

  • Summary

    To understand the roots of the bioeconomy, it is necessary to look back at two historical episodes with similar characteristics. On the one hand, during the 1920s and 1930s in the United States, some actors joined forces to develop a chemurgy aimed at creating industrial products on the basis of agricultural substrates. On the other hand, during the years 1976 to 1980, the crisis in petroleum-based chemistry led to the idea of a revival based on the chemistry of sugars. In this chapter, we will do so by analysing the way actors have defined how the use of renewable resources in substitution of oil should be organised.