Nicolai Goritz, Maria Proestou, and Peter H. Feindt wrote a new article examining how bioeconomy strategies around the world address long-term viability from a resilience perspective. Drawing on an analysis of 78 bioeconomy strategies from 50 countries, the study explores how characteristics of national policy design spaces shape strong and weak resilience orientations in bioeconomy policymaking.

Using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), the authors identify distinct pathways leading to stronger or weaker resilience orientations. The results underline the importance of economic wealth and governance quality, while also highlighting how structural economic and land-use conditions influence policy design outcomes.

The open access article is published in Environmental Challenges, Volume 22, and is available under this DOI.

For a clear and concise overview of the main findings and identified pathways, we invite you to explore the visual abstract below: