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Sustainable Capital ? The Neoliberalization of Nature and Knowledge in the European 'Knowledge-based Bio-economy'
- Source :
- Sustainability, Vol 2, Iss 9, Pp 2898-2918 (2010), Sustainability; Volume 2; Issue 9; Pages: 2898-2918
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- As an EU policy agenda, the “knowledge-based bio-economy” (KBBE) emphasizes bio-technoscience as the means to reconcile environmental and economic sustainability. This frames the sustainability problem as an inefficiency to be overcome through a techno-knowledge fix. Here ecological sustainability means a benign eco-efficient productivity using resources which are renewable, reproducible and therefore sustainable. The KBBE narrative has been elaborated by European Technology Platforms in the agri-food-forestry-biofuels sectors, whose proposals shape research priorities. These inform policy agendas for the neoliberalization of both nature and knowledge, especially through intellectual property. In these ways, the KBBE can be understood as a new political-economic strategy for sustainable capital . This strategy invests great expectations for unlocking the productive potential of natural resources through a techno-knowledge fix. Although eco-efficiency is sometimes equated with biological productivity, commercial success will be dependent upon new combinations of “living” and “dead” labour.
- Subjects :
- innovation narratives
Geography, Planning and Development
0211 other engineering and technologies
JN
TJ807-830
02 engineering and technology
HM
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Intellectual property
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
knowledge-based bio-economy
European Technology Platforms
techno-knowledge fix
neoliberal nature
sustainable capital
12. Responsible consumption
jel:Q
G1
11. Sustainability
Economics
Narrative
GE1-350
Productivity
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
021107 urban & regional planning
jel:Q0
jel:Q2
jel:Q3
Natural resource
jel:Q5
Environmental sciences
Economic sustainability
13. Climate action
jel:O13
Capital (economics)
Sustainability
Economic system
jel:Q56
Inefficiency
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Volume :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5f54424f5898220620c56a3ec4002279