The paper “Explaining low salience of environmental resilience challenges in bioeconomy strategies: A cross-regional comparative analysis” by G. Varanini, M. Proestou, N. Goritz, and P. H. Feindt has been published in the journal Earth System Governance.

The paper, which has been written in the context of the BMBF funded project PolDeRBio, examines why environmental resilience challenges have a low salience in bioeconomy strategies. It presents an exploratory comparative analysis of policy design processes in six countries: Malaysia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, and Germany. The study finds that the low salience of these challenges is due to the predominantly economic motivations among leading authorities and the under-representation of environmental actors in policy design spaces.

The full paper is available at this link.