Governance of the Bioeconomy: A Global Comparative Study of National Bioeconomy Strategies

By Thomas Dietz, J. Börner, J. Förster, Joachim von Braun. Sustainability, 2018

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More than forty states worldwide currently pursue explicit political strategies to expand and promote their bioeconomies. This paper assesses these strategies in the context of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our theoretical framework differentiates between four pathways of bioeconomic developments. The extent to which bioeconomic developments along these pathways lead to increased sustainability depends on the creation of effective governance mechanisms. We distinguish between enabling governance and constraining governance as the two fundamental political challenges in setting up an effective governance framework for a sustainable bioeconomy. Further, we lay out a taxonomy of political support measures (enabling governance) and regulatory tools (constraining governance) that states can use to confront these two political challenges. Guided by this theoretical framework, we conduct a qualitative content analysis of 41 national bioeconomy strategies to provide systematic answers to the question of how well designed the individual national bioeconomy strategies are to ensure the rise of a sustainable bioeconomy.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Addressing the Social Aspects of a Circular Economy: A Systematic Literature Review (2020, background): “From these studies, 13 articles use socio-economic theories, as follows: the social and solidarity economy [56,71,72], socio-technical transition theory [73], stakeholder theory [74], governance theory [60,75], historical analysis [50,76], grounded theory [77], social embeddedness and social capital”
• Development of the Circular Bioeconomy: Drivers and Indicators (2021, background): “of their bioeconomies politically, using enabling policy means [3].”
• Integrating the green economy, circular economy and bioeconomy in a strategic sustainability framework (2021, background): “…BE strategies ‘rely heavily on soft regulatory means, such as self-regulation of global value chains through private standards and certification regimes’ (Dietz et al., 2018) (p. 11), but little concrete policy measures apart beyond research programmes, at least in Europe (Töller et al., 2021).”