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Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy: Principles, Challenges and Perspectives pp 187–203Cite as

Tropicalizing Sustainable Bioeconomy: Initial Lessons from Ecuador

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Sustainable bioeconomy is being revised in tropical megabiodiverse developing countries. Given competing economic interests and development inequities, biodiversity may require becoming a strategic and central resource in national economies to ensure political feasibility of bioeconomic models. This paper attempts to address the need to document alternative approaches to transition to sustainable bioeconomy in the context of extractive economies in tropical and megabiodiverse developing countries. Using a case study approach, it reviews the Ecuadorian experience to developing a bio-industry value chain as an institutional arrangement that can enable a more efficient and integrated use of biological resources towards a sustainable and resilient economy, while addressing structural development and biodiversity protection challenges. Knowledge generated from this research can assist policymakers working on optimal design of instruments aiming at unraveling the full potential for biodiversity as a key resource in development strategies of tropical megabiodiverse countries.

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  1. Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Daniel V. Ortega-Pacheco, Ramón Espinel & María J. Mendoza-Jiménez

  2. United Nations Development Program—BioFin Initiative, Quito, Ecuador

    Ariel Silva

  3. National Biodiversity Institute, Quito, Ecuador

    Alfredo López & Diego Inclán

  4. Universidad Central, Quito, Ecuador

    Diego Inclán

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  1. Faculty of Life Sciences, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. “Constantin Brancusi” University of Târgu Jiu, Târgu Jiu, Romania

    Diana Mihaela Pociovălișteanu

  3. Department of Management, College of Business, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

    Paulo Roberto Borges de Brito

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    Ismar Borges de Lima

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Ortega-Pacheco, D.V., Silva, A., López, A., Espinel, R., Inclán, D., Mendoza-Jiménez, M.J. (2018). Tropicalizing Sustainable Bioeconomy: Initial Lessons from Ecuador. In: Leal Filho, W., Pociovălișteanu, D., Borges de Brito, P., Borges de Lima, I. (eds) Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy: Principles, Challenges and Perspectives. World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73028-8_11

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