Chapter 25 - Ecocatalysis: A New Approach Toward Bioeconomy

Reconquest of biodiversity, remediation of anthropic and degraded sites, prevention of environmental health hazards, eco-innovation, green industry … Current ambitions are closely related to an interdisciplinary approach to scientific ecology able to participate in expected industrial renewal. In this chapter we will show how the unusual combination of phytotechnologies adapted to pollution and ecological rehabilitation of polluted sites, and enhancement of these processes through innovative green chemistry, can contribute to the current development of scientific, economic, and environmental priorities of eco-innovation, biomass conversion, and the transition from fossil resources to renewables.