循环生物经济系统的生物启发工程
Brahm P Verma1, James W Jones2
1College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, and College of Engineering, Institute of Biological Engineering, University of Georgia, 1120 Lakewood Manor Drive, Athens, GA, 30606, USA. verma@uga.edu.
Journal of biological engineering
|June 19, 2025
概括
从不可持续的基于化石的线性系统过渡到可持续的基于生物的循环系统至关重要. 这需要融合科学,系统思维和多学科联盟来应对复杂的环境和经济挑战.
科学领域:
- *环境科学与工程 *环境科学与工程
- * 系统生物学和生态学
- * 可持续的资源管理
背景情况:
- *目前依赖化石资源的线性 (采用-制造-使用-处理) 系统是不可持续的,产生废物并导致气候变化.
- *自然系统以循环原则运作 (取出-制造-使用-腐烂-再利用),有效地回收资源,零浪费.
- *生物,自然和社会经济系统之间的复杂相互作用需要一个范式的转变.
研究的目的:
- *强调迫切需要从基于化石的线性系统过渡到循环生物经济模型.
- * 倡导建立一个多学科的专业社会联盟.
- * 建议生物工程研究所 (IBE) 作为这一转型的关键促进者.
主要方法:
- *分析当前不可持续的消费模式及其对环境的影响.
- * 审查自然循环系统作为可持续性模型.
- *在四年内与跨学科的领导者和利益相关者进行接触.
- * 系统思维方法,以了解相互连接的生物-自然-社会-经济系统.
主要成果:
- * 确定线性,基于化石的经济模型的局限性.
- * 展示循环,生物基系统的原则和好处.
- * 关于科学与工程融合为有效解决方案的必要性的共识.
- *认识到多学科联盟推动变革的潜力.
结论:
- *向可持续的基于生物的循环系统过渡至关重要.
- * 科学与系统思维融合的文化对于应对复杂的可持续性挑战至关重要.
- *一个多学科的专业社会联盟,可能由生物工程研究所领导,可以促进循环生物经济的创新解决方案.
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