A New Socio-economic Indicator to Measure the Performance of Bioeconomy Sectors in Europe

D’Adamo, Idiano; Falcone, Pasquale Marcello; Morone, Piergiuseppe

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106724

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“…All three dimensions are addressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) global framework, which was launched by the United Nations in 2015 and constituted a landmark in the push for sustainable development [7]. To measure the impacts of the bioeconomy on the three dimensions of sustainable development, a monitoring framework is considered crucial [8,9].…”

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Development of the Circular Bioeconomy: Drivers and Indicators

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The EU’s 2018 Bioeconomy Strategy Update and the European Green Deal recently confirmed that the bioeconomy is high on the political agenda in Europe. Here, we propose a conceptual analysis framework for quantifying and analyzing the development of the EU bioeconomy. The bioeconomy has several related concepts (e.g., bio-based economy, green economy, and circular economy) and there are clear synergies between these concepts, especially between the bioeconomy and circular economy concepts. Analyzing the driving factors provides important information for monitoring activities. We first derive the scope of the bioeconomy framework in terms of bioeconomy sectors and products to be involved, the needed geographical coverage and resolution, and time period. Furthermore, we outline a set of indicators linked to the objectives of the EU’s bioeconomy strategy. In our framework, measuring developments will, in particular, focus on the bio-based sectors within the bioeconomy as biomass and food production is already monitored. The selected indicators commit to the EU Bioeconomy Strategy objectives and conform with findings from previous studies and stakeholder consultation. Additionally, several new indicators have been suggested and they are related to measuring the impact of changes in supply, demand drivers, resource availability, and policies on sustainability goals.

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Development of the Circular Bioeconomy: Drivers and Indicators

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“…In this framework, an integrated MCDA-AHP can be used to measure sustainable performance and can be applied to compare European countries (D'Adamo et al, 2020). This work considers a sustainable index in the Environment and Energy (EE) topic (Cucchiella et al, 2017) obtaining by the product between the row vector (I), that represents the value of each criteria and the column vector (W), that represents the weight of each criteria.…”

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Assessing Environmental and Energetic Indexes in 27 European Countries

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Gastaldi

Rosa³

2021

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The present work wants to assess the environmental and energetic sustainability of 27 European countries. To this aim, a Multi-criteria decision analysis and an analytical hierarchy process has been implemented to gather and process information from the experts. Results show that only four countries (Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Austria) present very significant performances. The intervention of policymakers must be clear, by penalizing nonresponsible behavior, encouraging the development of circular and green practices, also through the exploitation of subsidies. A continuous monitoring of values over time and the identification of more appropriate criteria to evaluate performances, including economic and social views, are objectives to be addressed in the next future.

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“…To reach the sustainability goals, cooperation is essential, as well as a holistic change among all actors. Policy makers should create circumstances that enable partnerships across various industrial and societal sectors for value creation [10,56].…”

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Three Futures Scenarios of Policy Instruments for Sustainable Textile Production and Consumption as Portrayed in the Finnish News Media

Virta

Räisänen

2021

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This research uses futures studies as background methodology and presents three scenarios for sustainable textile production and consumption based on the data of the Finnish news media. The scenarios extend to 2050, and the emphasis is on recognising policy instruments that can potentially support sustainable textile production and consumption. The first data set included 214 news articles from 2019 that were analysed using theory-guided qualitative content analysis. The second data set consisted of five textile experts’ evaluations of the probability and preferability of claims based on the first data set. As a result, a table of futures scenarios was created, including descriptions of the current state and preferable, threatening and probable textile futures. The data show that textile and fashion sustainability issues are strongly presented in the media as part of the comprehensive climate-change-driven criticism of consumerism. The data emphasised a need for a holistic change in production and consumption. The most likely forms of policy instruments appear to be stronger corporate responsibility legislation (regulatory), environmental taxation of goods and services (economic), and eco-labelling of goods and services (information). These help in reaching the preferable scenario for 2050, which suggests a carbon-neutral textile production based on a circular economy.

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A New Socio-economic Indicator to Measure the Performance of Bioeconomy Sectors in Europe

Cited by 78 publications

References 49 publications

Development of the Circular Bioeconomy: Drivers and Indicators

Development of the Circular Bioeconomy: Drivers and Indicators

Assessing Environmental and Energetic Indexes in 27 European Countries

Three Futures Scenarios of Policy Instruments for Sustainable Textile Production and Consumption as Portrayed in the Finnish News Media

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