Visions and Expectations for the  Norwegian Bioeconomy

Hansen, Lillian; Bjørkhaug, Hilde

doi:10.3390/su9030341

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“…This study investigates how Austrian citizens perceive the general political vision of a bioeconomy. It, therefore, provides an important starting point for further research on the societal perceptions of a bioeconomy and supplements studies made on the perception of a bioeconomy by members of the industrial sector [42,43] and those only addressing bio-based products, e.g., [22].…”

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confidence: 99%

Understanding Perceptions of the Bioeconomy in Austria—An Explorative Case Study

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The bioeconomy provides new approaches to deal with environmental challenges by substituting fossil fuels for sustainable, renewable resources and fuels. In Europe, this process and discourse has mainly been driven from a strategic top-down level. This leads to a lack of inclusion of societal actors, which can consequently lead to reduced acceptance and engagement. Henceforth, in this study, we focus on exploring how the bioeconomy is perceived, understood and evaluated by a wider audience. Through convenience sampling, 456 interviews conducted with students, employees, farmers and pensioners living in Austria provide the database for the study. Due to the novelty of the study’s objective and the consequentially explorative research approach, qualitative and quantitative social science research methods are applied. The results indicate that the bioeconomy concept is associated with various themes and visions. These associated topics also have negative or positive implications. Furthermore, a division between two visions of the bioeconomy, a technology- and industry-driven vision and a vision defined by regional environmentalism, can be observed. The feasibility of a future bioeconomy identifies as the most critical aspect. Sustainable consumption was mentioned as an important topic of the bioeconomy by the participants, a result that could be of particular interest when creating an inclusive bioeconomy, since it calls for active involvement of consumers. The study also shows that responding farmers tend to believe that the bioeconomy will lead to more inequity.

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Understanding Perceptions of the Bioeconomy in Austria—An Explorative Case Study

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“…Considering this approach, the sustainable use of biomass is of pivotal importance as a component for sustainable bioeconomy implementation, whereas biomass acts as the main input for the bioeconomy. In the literature, authors (Blumberga et al, 2017;Cristóbal et al, 2016;Hansen & Bjørkhaug, 2017;Juerges & Hansjürgens, 2018;Muizniece, Timma, Blumberga, & Blumberga, 2016;Sasson & Malpica, 2018;Scarlat et al, 2015) also assert that the basic principle of sustainable bioeconomy is the sustainable use of bio-resources. This literature review suggests that there have been two approaches established (biotechnology oriented and sustainable bioeconomy).…”

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confidence: 99%

Evaluation of bioeconomy in the context of strong sustainability

Liobikienė

Baležentis

Štreimikienė

et al. 2019

Sustainable Development

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The implementation of bioeconomy is important in seeking to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Thus, in recent years, more attention is focused on sustainable bioeconomy. Referring to weak and strong sustainability approaches, many authors stated that bioeconomy is related only to weak sustainability, but this study provides a framework for policy makers that allows the definition and implementation of the bioeconomy based on the strong sustainability approach. Furthermore, researchers evaluating bioeconomy implementation conventionally encompassed the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of the impact of bio‐products; however, they did not consider the strong sustainability approach. Strong sustainability additionally requires not crossing ecological thresholds and, thus, implies consideration of planetary boundaries. Therefore, the inclusion of land footprint and biocapacity measures in the bioeconomy strategy, verifying that the land footprint does not exceed the level of biocapacity, is essential for the creation of a strongly sustainable bioeconomy. This study embarks on the definition of the bioeconomy based on strong sustainability and contributes to the discussion about bioeconomy implementation in the context of sustainable development.

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“…Selected papers address transition in production de Olde et al 2017;Grin 2012;Hoppe et al 2016;Pant et al 2014), processing Rosin et al 2017), consumption (Vinnari and Vinnari 2014;Vittersø and Tangeland 2015) or in the whole food system Gorissen et al 2018;Kuhmonen 2017;van Gameren et al 2015). Other papers adopt a wider approach and deal with bioeconomy (Hansen and Bjørkhaug 2017) or water-energy-food nexus . As in the case of MLP, affiliations of scholars as well location of case studies are north-biased (Table 6).…”

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“…Van Gameren et al (2015) highlighted that socio-political configurations, institutional contexts and governance arrangements influence the nascent local food systems in Belgium and, consequently, sustainable food consumption transitions. Therefore, they put Gorissen et al (2018) Urban food system Belgium Grin (2012) Dutch agriculture in the post-World War II The Netherlands Halbe et al (2015) Water-energy-food nexus Cyprus Hansen and Bjørkhaug (2017) Bioeconomy Norway Hoppe et al (2016) Phosphorus and nitrogen management Multi-country (The Netherlands and Finland) Kuhmonen (2017) Potential of futures images in food system transition Finland Long et al (2018) Food and beverage industry The Netherlands Pant et al (2014) Transformation in subsistence farming Nepal Rosin et al (2017) Sustainable wine production New Zealand van Local food systems Belgium Vinnari and Vinnari (2014) Plant-based diets Undefined Vittersø and Tangeland (2015) Organic food Norway governance, politics and institutions at the centre of the debate on sustainable consumption. Hoppe et al (2016) addressed resource politics in their critical analysis of the governance of phosphorus and nitrogen systems in Finland and the Netherlands.…”

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Transition heuristic frameworks in research on agro-food sustainability transitions

Bilali

2018

Environ Dev Sustain

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The agro-food system needs a genuine sustainability transition to achieve sustainable food and nutrition security in the face of climate change, population growth, ecosystem degradation and increasing resource scarcity. Agro-food sustainability transitions refer to transformation processes needed to move towards sustainable agriculture and food systems. There is a broad range of theoretical and conceptual frameworks that have been used to understand and promote transition towards sustainability. These include the multi-level perspective (MLP) on socio-technical transitions, transition management (TM), strategic niche management (SNM), technological innovation system (TIS) and social practice approach (SPA). The paper analyses the use of these heuristic frameworks in research on agro-food sustainability transitions. A search carried out in March 2018 on Scopus yielded 791 documents, and 127 research articles underwent a systematic review. Results show that more than three-fifths of research papers dealing with sustainability transitions in agriculture, food processing, distribution and consumption use at least one of the five heuristic frameworks (MLP, TM, SNM, TIS and SPA). The MLP is the most prominent framework in research on agro-food sustainability transitions, followed by TM, SPA, SNM and then TIS. Nevertheless, MLP is increasingly complemented with frameworks that focus on humanrelated and social factors (SPA), management and governance (TM, SNM) or agency and interactions between actors (TIS) in sustainability transitions processes. Therefore, the paper makes the case for more integration of transition frameworks in order to better nurture and foster transitions towards sustainable agro-food systems.

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Visions and Expectations for the Norwegian Bioeconomy

Cited by 33 publications

References 53 publications

Understanding Perceptions of the Bioeconomy in Austria—An Explorative Case Study

Understanding Perceptions of the Bioeconomy in Austria—An Explorative Case Study

Evaluation of bioeconomy in the context of strong sustainability

Transition heuristic frameworks in research on agro-food sustainability transitions

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