Explaining low salience of environmental resilience challenges in bioeconomy strategies: A cross-regional comparative analysis

IF 4.4 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Giorgio Varanini, Maria Proestou, Nicolai Goritz, Peter H. Feindt
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Abstract

Bioeconomy policies aim at fostering economic growth while solving the sustainability challenges of the fossil-based economy. However, these policies do little to discuss the resilience challenges of bioeconomies and the bio-based production systems on which they rest. Specifically, the environmental stresses that are likely to threaten the delivery of the bioeconomy's desired functions are barely addressed. This paper aims to understand why the salience of environmental resilience challenges is low in bioeconomy strategies. We conduct an exploratory comparative analysis of the policy design processes of six countries - Malaysia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy and Germany - building on expert interviews and a conceptual approach that emphasizes the importance of the policy design space. Our findings suggest that key factors in explaining the low salience of environmental resilience challenges are the predominantly economic motivation among leading authorities and the under-representation of environmental actors across policy design spaces.

解释生物经济战略中环境复原力挑战不突出的原因:跨区域比较分析
生物经济政策旨在促进经济增长,同时解决化石经济的可持续性挑战。然而,这些政策很少讨论生物经济及其所依赖的生物生产系统所面临的复原力挑战。具体而言,可能威胁生物经济预期功能实现的环境压力几乎没有涉及。本文旨在了解生物经济战略中为何环境复原力挑战不突出。我们基于专家访谈和强调政策设计空间重要性的概念方法,对马来西亚、南非、英国、爱尔兰、意大利和德国等六个国家的政策设计过程进行了探索性比较分析。我们的研究结果表明,导致环境复原力挑战不突出的关键因素是领导机构的主要经济动机以及环境参与者在政策设计空间中的代表性不足。
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