Navigating the biocosmos: Cornerstones of a bioeconomic utopia

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dc.contributor.authorOnyeali, Wolfgang
dc.contributor.authorSchlaile, Michael P.
dc.contributor.authorWinkler, Bastian
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-02T08:28:24Z
dc.date.available2024-10-02T08:28:24Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractOne important insight from complexity science is that the future is open, and that this openness is an opportunity for us to participate in its shaping. The bioeconomy has been part of this process of “future-making”. But instead of a fertile ecosystem of imagined futures, a dry monoculture of ideas seems to dominate the landscape, promising salvation through technology. With this article, weintend to contribute to regenerating the ecological foundations of the bioeconomy. What would it entail if we were to merge with the biosphere instead of machines? To lay the cornerstones of a bioeconomic utopia, we explore the basic principles of self-organization that underlie biological, ecological, social, and psychological processes alike. All these are self-assembling and self-regulating elastic structures that exist at the edge of chaos and order. We then revisit the Promethean problem that lies at the foundation of bioeconomic thought and discuss how, during industrialization, the principles of spontaneous self-organization were replaced by the linear processes of the assembly line. We ultimately propose a bioeconomy based on human needs with the household as the basic unit: the biocosmos. The biocosmos is an agroecological habitat system of irreducible complexity, a newhumanniche embedded into the local ecosystem.en
dc.identifier.swb1849775702
dc.identifier.urihttps://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16639
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/land12061212
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectBioeconomy
dc.subjectBioeconomics
dc.subjectEcology
dc.subjectEcological economics
dc.subjectComplexity
dc.subjectSelf-organization
dc.subjectUtopia
dc.subjectImagined futures
dc.subjectBiosphere
dc.subjectGeorgescu-Roegen
dc.subject.ddc330
dc.titleNavigating the biocosmos: Cornerstones of a bioeconomic utopiaen
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationLand, 12 (2023), 6, 1212. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061212. ISSN: 2073-445X
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber1212
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issn2073-445X
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue6
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleLand
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameMDPI
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume12
local.export.bibtex@article{Onyeali2023-06-11, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16639}, author = {Onyeali, Wolfgang and Schlaile, Michael P. and Winkler, Bastian et al.}, title = {Navigating the biocosmos: Cornerstones of a bioeconomic utopia}, journal = {Land}, year = {2023-06-11}, volume = {12}, }
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