Two publications by BIOPOLISTA team members have been recently published in the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning and Journal of Environmental Management.

The paper by Nicolai Goritz, Jonas von Pfister, Maria Proestou and Peter H. Feindt titled “Characterizing bioeconomy policy instruments: A global comparative analysis of bioeconomy strategies” analyzes policy instrument mixes of 78 governmental bioeconomy policy documents from 50 countries. The findings demonstrate that economic and nodal instruments with a focus on innovation, research and development dominate across the strategies. Additionally, it is shown that although instruments are frequently mentioned in the documents, detailed calibrations are rarely specified.

Alexandra Gottinger and Maria Proestou’s paper “Policy learning and unlearning towards a transition to a sustainable bioeconomy: The case of Germany” investigated objectives and vision in German bioeconomy policy mixes between 2010 and 2024 through the lenses of policy learning. The authors find a process of policy layering whereby emerging objectives of environmental protection and circularity are added to an overall bioresource-oriented vision of the bioeocnomy policy mixes

Please find the first article here and the second one under this link.