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Bio-compounds Production from Agri-food Wastes Under a Biorefinery Approach: Exploring Environmental and Social Sustainability

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The society and industrial sectors are facing important challenges regarding the production of bioproducts influenced by social responsibility and environmental consequences. Biorefinery development reports two important goals in the transition towards a bio-based economy: (i) the displacement of fossil-based products by biomass-based ones and (ii) the setting up of a strong bio-based industry. In this sense, research is being addressed into bio-based products opportunities from biomass residues with the aim of obtaining promising building blocks and high-added value products. Environmental and economic analysis of some bioproducts can be found in the literature. However, the social dimension of sustainability is regularly forgotten although many attempts have been performed to standardise and provide the procedures to assess the social dimension. This chapter presents the production of potential bioproducts from agri-food industrial sector and assesses their sustainability from environmental and social perspectives with the aim of identifying potential hotspots. Since the methodology to assess environmental consequences is well known and standardised, special attention is paid on the selection of the social indicators considered for analysis. To do so, social impact assessment is conducted through involved stakeholders, surveys and field experiments. Thus, the methodology to assess the social dimension has been formulated in detail considering very different social well-being-based indicators.

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Acknowledgements

This research has been financially supported by Xunta de Galicia (project ref. ED431F 2016/001), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CTQ2016-81848-REDT) and the STAR-ProBio project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Program (Grant agreement No. 727740). S.G.-G., P.G. & B.G. would like to express their gratitude to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for financial support (Grant references RYC-2014-14984, IJCI-2015-25304 and IJCI-2015-25305, respectively). The authors S.G.-G. & B.G. belong to the Galician Competitive Research Group GRC 2013-032, programme co-funded by FEDER as well as to CRETUS (AGRUP2015/02).

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González-García, S., Gullón, P., Gullón, B. (2019). Bio-compounds Production from Agri-food Wastes Under a Biorefinery Approach: Exploring Environmental and Social Sustainability. In: Muthu, S. (eds) Quantification of Sustainability Indicators in the Food Sector. Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2408-6_2

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