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Visions of Sustainability in Bioeconomy Research
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The rise of the bioeconomy is usually associated with increased sustainability. However, various controversies suggest doubts about this assumed relationship. The objective of this paper is to identify different visions and the current understanding of the relationship between the bioeconomy and sustainability in the scientific literature by means of a systematic review. After a search in several databases, 87 scientific journal articles were selected for review. Results show that visions about the relationship between bioeconomy and sustainability differ substantially. Four different visions were identified, including: (1) the assumption that sustainability is an inherent characteristic of the bioeconomy; (2) the expectation of benefits under certain conditions; (3) tentative criticism under consideration of potential pitfalls; and (4) the assumption of a negative impact of the bioeconomy on sustainability. There is considerable attention for sustainability in the scientific bioeconomy debate, and the results show that the bioeconomy cannot be considered as self-evidently sustainable. In further research and policy development, good consideration should therefore be given to the question of how the bioeconomy could contribute to a more sustainable future. Furthermore, it is stressed that the bioeconomy should be approached in a more interdisciplinary or trans-disciplinary way. The consideration of sustainability may serve as a basis for such an approach.
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“Similarly, the bioeconomy enables the transition from fossil-based to biomass-based industrial inputs and emphasizes the sustainable use of renewable resources for economic, environmental, and social benefits (Pfau et al., 2014; D'Amato et al., 2018; Gawel et al., 2019).”
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“Pfau et al. (2014) noted that scholars hold diverse perspectives regarding the contribution of the bioeconomy to sustainability, with the sustainable sourcing of biomass being a crucial issue.”
BackgroundInfluentialRambling facets of manure-based biogas production in Europe: A briefing
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“The fact that bioeconomy is considered sustainable is controversial amidst the scientific community, as a bioeconomic transition can also have negative impacts on sustainability [98].”
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“, material, chemicals, energy) should be derived from renewable biological resources, with research and innovation enabling the transformational process (Kleinschmit et al. 2014; Pfau et al. 2014; Bugge et al. 2016).”
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GHG and cattle farming: CO-assessing the emissions and economic performances in Italy
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The Political Economy of Fostering a Wood-based Bioeconomy in Germany
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“However, the research field of forest-based bioeconomy is yet highly fragmented especially from sustainability and social science perspective (see e.g. Pfau et al. 2014).”
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“Besides policy document analysis [5,11,12], literature reviews [2,13], stakeholder interviews, and surveys [4,14] have been recurrent data sources.”
BackgroundWhose transformation is this? Unpacking the ‘apparatus of capture’ in Sweden's bioeconomy
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Riding a Trojan horse? Future pathways of the fiber-based packaging industry in the bioeconomy
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Setting the design space of biorefineries through sustainability values, a practical approach
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“on renewability or on the environmental dimension (Pfau et al., 2014).”
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“For a detailed analysis of different viewpoints on the relationship between the bioeconomy and sustainability, see Pfau et al. (2014).”
BackgroundBio-economy and the sustainability of the agriculture and food system
Diakosavvas, D., & Frezal, C. (2019) · OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers · doi:10.1787/d0ad045d-en · Cited by 36
“Pfau et al. (2014) reviewed 87 journal articles from different academic disciplines dealing with the link between the bio-economy and sustainability.”
BackgroundSystem dynamics model of a biotechonomy
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Forest bioeconomy at regional scale: A systematic literature review and future policy perspectives
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Innovative Business Models for a Sustainable Circular Bioeconomy in the French Agrifood Domain
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Transition to a Sustainable Bioeconomy
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“Indeed, the bioeconomy cannot be considered sustainable per se, but needs to set sustainability as a central target to contribute to sustainable development [37].”
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Regulation of the Bioeconomy: Barriers, drivers and potential for innovation in the case of Ireland
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Biogas and EU's 2020 targets: Evidence from a regional case study in Italy
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“Causality is relevant in case of potential spatial spillover, which requires one to simultaneously account for synergies and trade-offs among the dimensions of sustainability (Pfau et al., 2014).”
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“Several scholars and experts have pointed out the current limits of the bioeconomy as a concept for forwarding environmental and social sustainability (Pfau et al. 2014) (Table 1).”
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Discourses in Finnish forest policy: Cherry-picking or sustainability?
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pfau, S., Hagens, J., Dankbaar, B., & Smits, A.
- Affiliations
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Pfau, Swinda
- ORCID
- Dankbaar, Ben
- Venue
- Sustainability
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2014-03-06
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1222-1249
- ISSN
- 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2112516455
- Cited by
- 398
- References
- 103
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 57 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 40 · 2018: 33 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 4
- FWCI
- 66.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Interreg
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Sustainable Development and Environmental Management
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Keywords
- bioeconomy, sustainability vision, bioeconomy policy, interdisciplinary research, transdisciplinarity
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