Brief Introduction
Lead your company to make the switch to biobased resources and build a profitable sustainable business. Learn how to deal with the economics and policies governing this transition and the implementation and learn how to measure the outcome.
Description
“In order to produce food in a sustainable way for an additional 2 billion people by 2050, a business-as-usual approach will not be sufficient. This is especially true in the face of climate change and other forces threatening natural resources like biodiversity, land and water that are essential for food production and agriculture, including forestry and fisheries. To meet these challenges, science and the application of biotechnologies as well as conventional technologies will play a key role.” FAO
Are you responsible for dealing with the economics and policies governing the transition- and implementation of biobased products and resources? Join the course Economics and Policies in a Biobased Economy and discover the whole value chain from Research & Development, over application, processing, retailing and final demand. Learn how the value chain and the rents and their distribution along the chain are affected by policies. Examples such as the benefits and costs of developing, cultivating, and marketing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be discussed extensively.
Upgrade your knowledge about the recent trends in the circular economy and in sustainable business. Know how to measure adoption and environmental benefits, learn about the benefits and costs and the distribution of sustainable products, market power, approval processes, supply chain, guiding policies and the current social debate.
Join the MicroMasters programme!
This course is part of the MicroMasters programme Economics and Policies for a Circular Bio-Economy
A series of 3 courses and a final capstone project designed to help you cover the economic and policy side of converting biological resources into biobased products. You will be able to contribute to managerial decision-making, as well as policy development.
Explore the other courses in this MicroMasters programme:
- Circular Economy: An Interdisciplinary Approach
- From Fossil Resources to Biomass: a Chemistry Perspective
- Capstone Economics and Policies for a Circular Bio-Economy
You might also like the MicroMasters Business and Operations for a Circular Bio-Economy.
Knowledge
- Explain the economic issues and policies affecting the biobased economy at the EU and international level
- Identify the important factors driving the development of the circular bioeconomy
- Assess the development of the circular bioeconomy from an economic perspective
Introduction to Microeconomics
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Learn Economics and get some help for your exams This course provides main concepts and exercises for demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and market failures....
From Fossil Resources to Biomass: A Business and Economics Perspective
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Explore how to create a sustainable future by moving away from dependence on fossil to biomass resources for the production of food, chemicals, and energy-carriers....
Our Energy Future
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This course will also cover the importance of creating a sustainable energy future for all societies including those of the developing world....
Earth Economics
- 4.6
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After this course you will be an Earth Economist that can provide evidence-based advise on the best global policy. Our planet is too important: we need you to get engaged!...
