Reference
Foundations
Two introductory pages: what the bioeconomy is, and the basics of the carbon cycle.
The section for first reading. What is the bioeconomy defines the subject — an economy built on biological resources and processes — and marks where it ends. Carbon cycle basics supplies the frame every climate page in the wiki stands on: the difference between the fast and slow cycles decides what counts as return and what counts as removal.
Both pages are deliberately short: they set the vocabulary rather than exhaust the topic.
- What is the bioeconomy Definitions of the bioeconomy, the biotechnology / bioresource / bioecology visions, cascading use, and the substitution-versus-land-competition problem at its centre.
- Carbon cycle & biogenic carbon The fast biological carbon cycle, the distinction between biogenic and fossil carbon, and why the carbon-neutrality assumption depends on timing, counterfactual and permanence.