RePro managers, transaction costs and sustainable value creation

The use of secondary resources from energy, water, agriculture and forestry promises both economic success and ecological sustainability in energy production in the area of tension between land use. How can such value chains be built and obstacles overcome?

The authors report on the potentials as well as on the efforts that have to be made in the form of RePro management in order to be able to leverage them. They also talk about the transaction costs involved in setting up repro chains, which currently often mean that purely economic viability is not yet a given. Nevertheless, RePro management can be worthwhile because it can bring many non-monetary benefits, from regional value creation and job security to sustainable supply and stable prices for water, wastewater and heat.