Soil governance in the transition towards a sustainable bioeconomy – A review

Juerges, Nataly; Hansjürgens, Bernd

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.10.143

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“…Moreover, overutilization of land can lead to land degradation and desertification in the worst case (Smolker, ). Juerges and Hansjürgens () argue that in the transition toward a bioeconomy the increasing demand for biomass might set incentives to manage soils with a short‐term time perspective, while causing negative effects for soil quality in the long term. They conclude, since short‐term costs and benefits of decisions regarding the use of soils often differ from long‐term costs and benefits of building up soils, the challenge of managing trade‐offs and spillovers over time is increasingly essential in the governance of the transition process.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The sustainability of bioeconomy policies has been already discussed in the literature (Birch et al, ; Global Bioeconomy Summit [GBS], ; Juerges & Hansjürgens, ; Pfau et al, ; Sheppard et al, ; Smolker, ). These studies and reports mainly criticize that measure and strategies ensuring sustainability are missing in most of the bioeconomy concepts.…”

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Bioeconomy and SDGs: Does the Bioeconomy Support the Achievement of the SDGs?

Heimann

2019

Earth's Future

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This paper evaluates how bioeconomy activities, stated in the concepts of the European Union, Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development, and the German government, potentially affect the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The aim of the bioeconomy is to substitute the use of fossil resources by renewable resources, while the SDGs set targets for a holistic sustainable global development. A literature‐based influence analysis on empirical studies is employed to derive three bioeconomy scenarios (business as usual, bioeconomy, and sustainable bioeconomy) and to quantify their effects on the individual SDG targets. It is shown that the bioeconomy scenario has positive as well as negative effects on the SDG targets. While targets for cleaner industrial production are strongly supported, socioeconomic targets are subject to mixed effects and environmental targets significantly hurt. This paper outlines which SDGs need special attention when implementing a bioeconomy according to the above‐mentioned concepts. The results add to the debate on SDG trade‐offs and on the substitutability of SDG targets. Without regulations, policies, and investments ensuring sustainability, or in case the substitutability of SDG targets is not allowed, the bioeconomy concepts have the potential to jeopardize the achievement of several SDGs. In contrast, the sustainable bioeconomy scenario assumes strong sustainability measures that reveal the extensive potential of the bioeconomy to support the achievement of the SDGs.

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Section: Results: Bioeconomy and The Sdgsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Bioeconomy and SDGs: Does the Bioeconomy Support the Achievement of the SDGs?

Heimann

2019

Earth's Future

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“…Considering this approach, the sustainable use of biomass is of pivotal importance as a component for sustainable bioeconomy implementation, whereas biomass acts as the main input for the bioeconomy. In the literature, authors (Blumberga et al, 2017;Cristóbal et al, 2016;Hansen & Bjørkhaug, 2017;Juerges & Hansjürgens, 2018;Muizniece, Timma, Blumberga, & Blumberga, 2016;Sasson & Malpica, 2018;Scarlat et al, 2015) also assert that the basic principle of sustainable bioeconomy is the sustainable use of bio-resources. This literature review suggests that there have been two approaches established (biotechnology oriented and sustainable bioeconomy).…”

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Evaluation of bioeconomy in the context of strong sustainability

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Baležentis

Štreimikienė

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Sustainable Development

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The implementation of bioeconomy is important in seeking to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Thus, in recent years, more attention is focused on sustainable bioeconomy. Referring to weak and strong sustainability approaches, many authors stated that bioeconomy is related only to weak sustainability, but this study provides a framework for policy makers that allows the definition and implementation of the bioeconomy based on the strong sustainability approach. Furthermore, researchers evaluating bioeconomy implementation conventionally encompassed the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of the impact of bio‐products; however, they did not consider the strong sustainability approach. Strong sustainability additionally requires not crossing ecological thresholds and, thus, implies consideration of planetary boundaries. Therefore, the inclusion of land footprint and biocapacity measures in the bioeconomy strategy, verifying that the land footprint does not exceed the level of biocapacity, is essential for the creation of a strongly sustainable bioeconomy. This study embarks on the definition of the bioeconomy based on strong sustainability and contributes to the discussion about bioeconomy implementation in the context of sustainable development.

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“…The information generated through impact assessment is crucial to crafting appropriate responses; impact assessment informs the (re-)design of governance instruments and institutions that influence other drivers of soil management in such a way as to redirect pressures in line with goals set by society ( Figure 1). Currently, soil-related governance is heavily understudied (Juerges & Hansjürgens, 2018); in the European Union, many different policies that influence soils exist, but because of failure to establish a Soil Framework Directive, they are not necessarily consistent with each other and only partially tackle the needs of sustainable soil management (Glaesner, Helming, & de Vries, 2014;Kutter et al, 2011;Paleari, 2017;Vrebos et al, 2017).…”

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Managing soil functions for a sustainable bioeconomy—Assessment framework and state of the art

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Bioeconomy strategies have been adopted in many countries around the world. Their sustainable implementation requires a management of soils that maintains soil functions and avoids land degradation. Only then, ecosystem services can be maintained and resources used efficiently. We present an analytical framework for impact assessment that links policy and technology driving forces for soil management decisions to soil processes, soil functional changes, and their impacts on ecosystem services and resource use efficiency, both being targets that have been set by society and are anchored in bioeconomy policy strategies and sustainable development goals. Although the resource use efficiency concept has a long-term tradition, most studies of agricultural management do not address the role of soils in their efficiency assessment. The concept of ecosystem services has received increasing attention over the last years; however, its link to soil functions and soil management practices is still not well established. This study is the first to conceptually link the socioeconomic processes of external drivers for soil management with the natural processes of soil functions and connect them back to impacts on the social system. Application of the framework helps strengthen the science-policy interface and to systemically assess and compare the opportunities and threats of soil management practices from the perspective of goals set by society at different spatial and temporal scales. Insights gained in this way can be applied in stakeholder decisionmaking processes and used to inform the design of governance instruments aimed at sustainable soil management within a bioeconomy. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Soil governance in the transition towards a sustainable bioeconomy – A review

Cited by 72 publications

References 95 publications

Bioeconomy and SDGs: Does the Bioeconomy Support the Achievement of the SDGs?

Bioeconomy and SDGs: Does the Bioeconomy Support the Achievement of the SDGs?

Evaluation of bioeconomy in the context of strong sustainability

Managing soil functions for a sustainable bioeconomy—Assessment framework and state of the art

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