[IUFRO Div 9] New paper: Patterns of European bioeconomy policy. Insights from a cross-case study of three policy areas

Dear colleagues, we are happy to inform you about the publication of our new paper in the Journal "Environmental Politics" "Patterns of European bioeconomy policy. Insights from a cross-case study of three policy areas" by Thomas Vogelpohl, Katrin Beer, Benjamin Ewert, Daniela Perbandt, Annette Toeller, and Michael Boecher ABSTRACT The concept of the bioeconomy has risen to great popularity with governments around the world as a new paradigm for a sustainable economy. However, it is still highly contentious what the bioeconomy actually is or should be, which results in a certain vagueness of bioeconomy policy strategies. European bioeconomy policy is a prime example of this. Despite two dedicated bioeconomy strategies, it appears to be highly fragmented and heterogeneous when it comes to concrete political processes and measures. Against this backdrop, we aim to find patterns of European bioeconomy policy by applying the political process-inherent dynamics approach (PIDA) to the three sub-areas of bioplastics, biofuels and bioenergy. Aggregating the respective results, the overarching pattern of European bioeconomy policy is rather shaped by the interplay of specific problem structures, institutional frameworks and actor constellations in its policy sub-areas than by the ambiguous umbrella concept of the bioeconomy. Free copies are available ( the first 50) here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2021.1917827 The paper is a result of the project "Political processes of bioeconomy between economy and ecology" http://www.bio-oekopoli.de/bio-oekopoli/en/, a cooperation between FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany and Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany. It has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF). Best regards Michael Boecher Prof. Dr. Michael Böcher Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg Institut für Gesellschaftswissenschaften Lehrstuhl für Politikwissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt Nachhaltige Entwicklung http://www.pw.ovgu.de/Lehrst%C3%BChle/Lehrstuhl+Nachhaltige+Entwicklung.html Universitätsplatz 2 39106 Magdeburg Tel.: 0391-67-56585 Fax: 0391-67-46575 Besuchen Sie den Lehrstuhl auf Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/Lehrstuhl-Politikwissenschaft-Schwerpu…3/>!