Bioeconomy – an emerging meta-discourse affecting forest discourses?

Pülzl, Helga; Kleinschmit, Daniela; Arts, B.J.M.

doi:10.1080/02827581.2014.920044

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“…Ponte [54] argues that processes and procedures associated with standard setting in the bioeconomy become more important than outcomes in terms of sustainable development. The bioeconomy discourse may in fact lead to a decreasing emphasis on issues such as deforestation and loss of biological diversity [6].…”

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“…For instance, the conceptualisations of the bioeconomy range from one that is closely connected to the increasing use of bio-technology across sectors, e.g., [8], to one where the focus is on the use of biological material, e.g., [9]. Thus, describing the bioeconomy, it has been argued that "its meaning still seems in a flux" [6] (p. 386) and that the bioeconomy can be characterised as a "master narrative" [10] (p. 95), which is open for very different interpretations.…”

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“…Moving from fossil-based to bio-based products and energy is important from a climate change perspective, but it is also suggested that a transition to a bioeconomy will address issues related to food security, health, industrial restructuring, and energy security [5][6][7].…”

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What Is the Bioeconomy? A Review of the Literature

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Abstract:The notion of the bioeconomy has gained importance in both research and policy debates over the last decade, and is frequently argued to be a key part of the solution to multiple grand challenges. Despite this, there seems to be little consensus concerning what bioeconomy actually implies. Consequently, this paper seeks to enhance our understanding of what the notion of bioeconomy means by exploring the origins, uptake, and contents of the term "bioeconomy" in the academic literature. Firstly, we perform a bibliometric analysis that highlights that the bioeconomy research community is still rather fragmented and distributed across many different fields of science, even if natural and engineering sciences take up the most central role. Secondly, we carry out a literature review that identifies three visions of the bioeconomy. The bio-technology vision emphasises the importance of bio-technology research and application and commercialisation of bio-technology in different sectors of the economy. The bio-resource vision focuses on processing and upgrading of biological raw materials, as well as on the establishment of new value chains. Finally, the bio-ecology vision highlights sustainability and ecological processes that optimise the use of energy and nutrients, promote biodiversity, and avoid monocultures and soil degradation.

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“…Neoliberal discourse and policies are characterised by market expansion, deregulation respectively market friendly re-regulation, privatisation of state-owned enterprises and services, and increasing influence of corporate non-state actors [63,64]. Discourse and practice in this context are guided by the aim of economic competitiveness, which is also a key element of all bioeconomy visions.…”

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Bioeconomy Strategies: Contexts, Visions, Guiding Implementation Principles and Resulting Debates

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2017

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Over the last decade, bioeconomy policies, guided by integrated bioeconomy strategies, have developed. This paper presents a systematic and comparative analysis of official bioeconomy strategies of the EU, Germany, OECD, Sweden and the USA with regard to their context, visions and guiding implementation principles. In an additional step, the relationship between these strategies and important scientific and societal debates around bioeconomy is assessed. In conclusion, five major stumbling blocks for the further development of the bioeconomy are worked out. First, there is the risk of disappointment because far-reaching promises of the strategies are difficult to achieve. Second, the bioeconomy is not the only way to a low carbon economy so alternatives could impede the desired development. Third, persistent conflicts between the different uses of biomass for food, material and energy production could lead to unstable policy support with short-term shifts. Fourth, a broader success of new bioeconomy value chains could trigger new societal conflicts over bioeconomy if efficiency gains, cascading use, residue use and sustainability certification are not sufficient to ensure a sustainable supply of biomass. Fifth, the acceptance of bioeconomy could be compromised if bioeconomy policies continue to ignore the on-going societal debates on agriculture and food.

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“…Al tal fine, è necessario tenere nella debita considerazione le potenzialità e i limiti del settore e al contempo includere le opinioni e i punti di vista dei portatori d'interessi (stakeholder). La consultazione dei portatori Valorizzazione della filiera foresta-legno in Calabria d'interessi è di fondamentale importanza per accrescere l'accettazione sociale delle decisioni prese, per diminuire i conflitti sociali tra portatori d'interessi, per includere le conoscenze locali e tradizionali nelle azioni di valorizzazione, e per migliorare i processi comunicativi e informativi , Pülzl et al 2014.…”

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Strategies for the promotion of the forest-wood chain in Calabria (southern Italy): the stakeholders’ point of view

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Strategies for the promotion of the forest-wood chain in Calabria (southern Italy): the stakeholders' point of view. In Italy, the value of bioeconomy is 251 billion € and more than 1.7 million of workforce is employed in this sector. The forest-wood chain cover about 15% of total value of bioeconomy. The consultation draft of Italian Bioeconomy Strategy was presented on November 22, 2016. This document identifies three macro-sectors (agrifood, marine bioeconomy, forestry and biobased industry) with the respective objectives and priorities. In addition, some Italian regions are organizing to devise a regional strategy detailing the key points of the EU Bioeconomy Strategy and Italian Bioeconomy Strategy in accordance with local peculiarities. In order to develop a regional strategy for the forest sector it is important to investigate the social demands and needs involving the local stakeholders. The aim of the study is to investigate the stakeholders' opinions of Calabria Region (Italy) about the priorities of forest-wood chain to include in the future regional bioeconomy strategy. The stakeholders' opinions were collected through the face-to-face administration of a structured questionnaire to 99 local stakeholders. The respondents assessed the importance of a set of objectives aimed to enhance the forest-wood chain at local level (economic exploitation of wood products; diffusion of forest certification; orientation of production to market demand; coordination of forest-wood-energy chain's actors; implementation of environmental and cultural forest values; improvement of the level of mechanization in wood processing; improvement of the efficiency of forestry workers). In addition, the respondents assessed the capacity of some specific activities to achieve the above mentioned objectives. The collected data were used to define two strategies aimed to enhance the forest-wood chain in Calabria Region. The results show that for the interviewed stakeholders the main three objectives are: the implementation of environmental and cultural forest values, the improvement of the efficiency of forestry workers, and the diffusion of forest certification. In addition, the stakeholders highlighted the importance of the activities of environmental education for the citizens and the professional training courses for the forest operators. Finally, the diffusion of forest certification is a key issue for the interviewed stakeholders. This issue can be achieved facilitating the access of the certified products to the market and creating a chain-of-custody system for the wood products.

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Bioeconomy – an emerging meta-discourse affecting forest discourses?

Cited by 173 publications

References 48 publications

What Is the Bioeconomy? A Review of the Literature

What Is the Bioeconomy? A Review of the Literature

Bioeconomy Strategies: Contexts, Visions, Guiding Implementation Principles and Resulting Debates

Strategies for the promotion of the forest-wood chain in Calabria (southern Italy): the stakeholders’ point of view

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