TY - JOUR
T1 - Away from fossil-fuels and toward a bioeconomy
T2 - Knowledge versatility for public policy?
AU - Mukhtarov, Farhad
AU - Gerlak, Andrea
AU - Pierce, Robin
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by Be-Basic Research Consortium Project TQSB53.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, © Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2017/9/1
Y1 - 2017/9/1
N2 - In the face of energy security and climate change, and with technological advances, many industrial countries have embraced the transition to a bioeconomy – an economy based on energy, chemicals and materials obtained from biomass. However, the policy and academic discourses on a bioeconomy transition suggest growing controversy around its social, environmental and ethical impacts. In this article, we apply an epistemic forms framework to better understand the scope and extent of the bioeconomy debate. We find that industry and governments take a narrow approach to a bioeconomy and tend to view it exclusively as a technical concept. We argue that the discursive and practical dimensions of the transition would shed light on the issues of what type of a bioeconomy to strive for, through which procedures and with what impacts for diverse stakeholders. We conclude with a set of recommendations related to a bioeconomy transition.
AB - In the face of energy security and climate change, and with technological advances, many industrial countries have embraced the transition to a bioeconomy – an economy based on energy, chemicals and materials obtained from biomass. However, the policy and academic discourses on a bioeconomy transition suggest growing controversy around its social, environmental and ethical impacts. In this article, we apply an epistemic forms framework to better understand the scope and extent of the bioeconomy debate. We find that industry and governments take a narrow approach to a bioeconomy and tend to view it exclusively as a technical concept. We argue that the discursive and practical dimensions of the transition would shed light on the issues of what type of a bioeconomy to strive for, through which procedures and with what impacts for diverse stakeholders. We conclude with a set of recommendations related to a bioeconomy transition.
KW - Bioeconomy
KW - epistemic forms
KW - policy-makers
KW - transition management
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U2 - 10.1177/0263774X16676273
DO - 10.1177/0263774X16676273
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028069175
VL - 35
SP - 1010
EP - 1028
JO - Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
JF - Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
SN - 2399-6544
IS - 6
ER -