The Political Economy of Fostering a Wood-based Bioeconomy in Germany
Abstract: To increase the sustainability of economic processes and products as well as the use of sustainable resource inputs, a transition is required from the hitherto predominantly fossil resource-based “throughput economy” towards a circular flow economy based on renewable resources, the so-called bioeconomy. This paper considers the transition challenge from the perspective of dynamic theories on lock-in effects and lock-out options. Within this framework, a successful transition requires a twofold equilibrium: the economic sustainability equilibrium and a corresponding political equilibrium providing the corresponding transition policies. Based on the positive analysis of both current bioeconomy policies and policy demand by bioeconomy actors in Germany, this paper devel-ops recommendations on how a political equilibrium may be achieved which favors a sustainability-oriented transformation to a bioeconomy. One means of doing so, for example, is to combine a gradual development of exist.... https://www.tib-op.org/ojs/index.php/gjae/article/view/1999
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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The Political Economy of Fostering a Wood-based Bioeconomy in Germany ; volume:64 ; number:4 ; year:2015
German journal of agricultural economics ; 64, Heft 4 (2015)
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10.52825/gjae.v64i4.1999
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2409251006264.356931080424
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated
- Pannicke, Nadine
- Gawel, Erik
- Hagemann, Nina
- Purkus, Alexandra
- Strunz, Sebastian