Privately owned forests and woodlands in Spain: Changing resilience strategies towards a forest-based bioeconomy

Abstract

Some marginalized Spanish forest areas view the circular bioeconomy proposal as an alternative solution and an opportunity required by both global and local challenges. This article aims to contribute to decision-making and to a forest-bioeconomy proposal design from a qualitative perspective by analysing resilience strategies in the south of the aragonese region on three levels, namely private forest owners (PFO) practices, resources/assets, and governance, and three scales, forest, community and territory. The

Systematic Literature Review: Inter-Reletedness of Innovation, Resilience and Sustainability - Major, Emerging Themes and Future Research Directions

“…We review the papers that were published in one year before data collection. The results show that literature reviews [ 8 , 16 , 25 , 35 , 43 , 51 , 55 , 67 , 79 , 91 ] and case studies [ 2 , 4 , 9 , 17 , 24 , 30 , 54 , 61 , 83 , 88 ] are still the predominant research methods, although more sophisticated methods of research are starting to become adopted, though, such as systematic literature reviews [ 15 ], comparative analysis of the investment criteria and other reports [ 33 ], interviews [ 23 , 81 ] and surveys [ 32 , 50 , 66 , 90 ].…”

“…The first emerging theme, on food security and agriculture, encompasses the largest set of articles ([ 2 , 8 , 16 , 33 , 55 , 67 , 76 , 79 , 81 , 83 , 91 ] which could be due to the rising need to consider food security within the frame of resilience, sustainability and innovation. The constraint of the natural resources should not exceed natural regenerative capacity, while the economic return should meet certain expectations to be considered sustainable [ 16 ].…”

“…However, different stakeholders were also involved in the agricultural value chain, such as governments, scientific communities, the public [ 16 ], non-governmental organisations and academic experts [ 81 ]. Research in this domain also acknowledges environmental parks [ 55 ], and primary forest owners [ 79 ] as those where resilience, sustainability and innovation play an important role. A broad array of stakeholders can be classified into public, civil and private stakeholders [ 83 ].…”

Circular Bio-economy—Paradigm for the Future: Systematic Review of Scientific Journal Publications from 2015 to 2021

“…Limited consumer interest and acceptance may be a major stumbling block to the progress of a circular bio-economy [300,332]. Generating awareness among, disseminating information to, seeking consent and acceptance from and respecting the opinions of all the stakeholders, social groups and competent authorities involved, is of paramount importance, as Kokkinos et al After all, a circular bio-economy is a political (inter-governmental), industrial and societal initiative, necessitating, inter alia: & instillation of a flexible and encouraging organisational change culture in the value chains [211,225] & stronger private-public partnerships [323] & innovative approaches in addition to 'technology-push' traditional R&D or a piecemeal approach to different technologies [323] & willingness to establish bio-based industries to attain self-sufficiency in essential commodities (as exemplified for bio-nutraceuticals in Italy [268]) & collaborations between 'conventional and non-conventional entities' in the economy [322] among various disciplines in academic and industrial research [288] & rural recapitalisation and integration of marginalised communities [226] & robust institutional structures at local and regional levels [363] & systems thinking at all levels [364,365] & strong governance, an effective policy mix, appropriate legal framework conditions and innovative approaches [227,340,366] & a revamp of quality standards to accommodate recycled bio-products [166] & changes in entire systems through the joint efforts of researchers, technology centres, industries, the primary sector, new entrepreneurs, consumers, civil society and governments [140,291,324,325,330] & reimagination of cities which house over 50% of the global population, are centres of direct and indirect consumption of resources and are often vilified as exporters of ecological 'bads', as sites of bioeconomic value [367] It is here that post-modern technologies like cloud computing, social networks and big data promise to be useful enablers [301], while bioinformatics [368] and econometric models [241]…”

Medición de la relevancia y evolución de la bioeconomía en España

“…En el caso de España, la relevancia de la bioeconomía es indudable debido, sobre todo, al fuerte peso que tienen sectores como el agrícola o la industria agroalimentaria en el conjunto de la economía y el potencial que se reconoce en otros como el forestal (Verkerk et al, 2018;Sanz-Hernández, 2021), la gestión de los residuos agrícolas (Egea et al, 2018), la bioenergía (Paredes-Sanchez et al, 2019) y toda la industria manufacturera. Durante los últimos años, España ha impulsado la inversión y el desarrollo en estos sectores y ha potenciado la creación de normativas y estrategias para permitir y facilitar la transición hacia un sistema productivo que garantice la sostenibilidad de los ecosistemas.…”