We are happy to announce our new article, “Pathways to Strong and Weak Resilience Orientation in Bioeconomy Policies: A Global Configurational Analysis of Policy Design Space Conditions,” authored by Nicolai Goritz, Maria Proestou, and Peter H. Feindt.

The study takes a global perspective on bioeconomy policymaking and asks how national strategies address the long-term resilience of bioeconomy development. Based on an analysis of 78 bioeconomy strategies from 50 countries, the authors assess the strength of resilience orientations and examine how political, economic, land-use and environmental conditions shape policy design.

Applying fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), we identify multiple pathways leading to stronger or weaker resilience orientations. The findings highlight the importance of economic wealth and governance quality, while also showing how structural conditions such as oil dependence and specific land-use patterns can constrain resilience-oriented policymaking.

The article advances our understanding of how national policy design spaces enable or limit the integration of resilience thinking into bioeconomy strategies worldwide.

A visual abstract summarising the key findings and pathways is available below.

The article is open access in Environmental Challenges, Volume 22.