Publications

Trafobit

Endogenous effects and cluster transition: a conceptual framework for cluster policy

Abbasiharofteh, M. 2020. Endogenous effects and cluster transition: a conceptual framework for cluster policy. European Planning Studies, 1-24. doi:10.1080/09654313.2020.1724266

Trafobit

Introducing a Multiscalar Framework for Biocluster Research: A Meta-Analysis

Ayrapetyan, D., & Hermans, F. 2020. Introducing a Multiscalar Framework for Biocluster Research: A Meta-Analysis. Sustainability, 12(9). doi:10.3390/su12093890

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Bioeconomy futures: Expectation patterns of scientists and practitioners on the sustainability of bio‐based transformation

Biber-Freudenberger, L., Ergeneman, C,. Förster, J.J., Dietz, T. and J. Börner. 2020. Bioeconomy futures: Expectation patterns of scientists and practitioners on the sustainability of bio‐based transformation. Sustainable Development, Wiley Online Library. https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2072

Circulus

Circulus Newsletter No. 4

Circulus – Opportunities and challenges of transition to a sustainable circular bio-economy, Newsletter 4, February 2020, University of Freiburg

Mentalities in flux (flumen)

Mental Models of Sustainability: The Degrowth Doughnut Model

Domazet, M., Rilović, A., Ančić, B., Andersen, B., Richardson, L., Brajdić Vuković, M., Pungas, L. and T. Medak. 2020. Mental Models of Sustainability: The Degrowth Doughnut Model. Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes, 276-286 pp.

The doughnut model provides a base for guiding strategies for urgent and radical socio-metabolic transformation that human communities must put into practice to achieve global just sustainability. It visually quantifies existing social reproduction deviations in the chosen units (nations, regions) from the abstract safe and just operating space. This space is defined by boundaries and thresholds of biophysical, socioeconomic, and cultural downscaled and normalized indicator values; based on a principle-theory paradigm of realistically sustainable flourishing of people and planet.

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Sustainability check for bio-based technologies: A review of process-based and life cycle approaches

Escobar, N. and Laibach, N. 2020. Sustainability check for bio-based technologies: A review of process-based and life cycle approaches. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Volume 135, January 2021, 110213.

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Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil’s soy exports

Escobar, N., Tizado, E.J., zu Ermgassen, E.K.H.J., Löfgren, P., Börner, J. & J. Godar. 2020. Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil’s soy exports (Accepted in Journal Global Environmental Change)

Mentalities in flux (flumen)

The social specificity of societal nature relations in a flexible capitalist society

Eversberg, Dennis. 2020. The social specificity of societal nature relations in a flexible capitalist society. In: Environmental Values (fast-track pdf e-print).

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Condemned to circularity: Thailand’s bioplastic industry development

Förster, J.J. 2020. Condemned to circularity: Thailand’s bioplastic industry development. ZEFnews no. 40, Center for Development Research (ZEF), 10-11.

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Exploring criteria for transformative policy capacity in South Africa’s Biodiversity Economy

Förster, J.J., Downsborough, L., Biber-Freudenberger, L., Kelboro, G., Börner, J. 2020. Exploring criteria for transformative policy capacity in South Africa´s Biodiversity Economy. Policy Sciences 1107: 9385. DOI: 10.1007/s11077-020-09385

Bioeconomy & Inequalities

Abhängigkeit im 21. Jahrhundert. Globale Stoffströme und internationale Arbeitsteilung.

Graf, Jakob; Landherr, Anna; Puder, Janina; Rackwitz, Hans; Reitz, Tilman; Sey, Benjamin; Sittel, Johanna; Tittor, Anne. 2020. Abhängigkeit im 21. Jahrhundert. Globale Stoffströme und internationale Arbeitsteilung. In: PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 198, pp. 11-32.

Abhängigkeiten im globalen Kapitalismus stellen eine historische Kontinuität dar. Wie diese sich seit dem Ende der formalen Kolonialherrschaft in ökonomischer und politischer Hinsicht fortsetzen, hat Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts zunächst vor allem der lateinamerikanische Dependenzansatz prominent diskutiert. Der vorliegende Beitrag argumentiert, dass politische und ökonomische Abhängigkeiten trotz Verschiebungen gegenüber der Ausgangslage der dependenztheoretischen Diskussionen der 1970er Jahre weithin fortbestehen und sich nicht allein über die Betrachtung ökonomischer Kennziffern beschreiben lassen. Gerade auch im Hinblick auf zwei Leerstellen des Dependenzansatzes, der Aneignung von un(ter-) bezahlter Sorge- und Subsistenzarbeit sowie am kostenlosen Zugriff auf Natur, zeigen sich Machtbeziehungen und Abhängigkeitsverhältnisse, auf denen die kapitalistische Weltwirtschaft weiterhin beruht.

Circulus

Transforming the bio-based sector towards a circular economy – What can we learn from wood cascading?

Jarre, M., Petit-Boix, A., Priefer, C., Meyer, R. and S.Leipold. 2020. Transforming the bio-based sector towards a circular economy – What can we learn from wood cascading? Forest Policy and Economics 110

Bioeconomy & Inequalities

The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas

Kaltmeier, Olaf; Tittor, Anne; Hawkins, Daniel; Rohland, Eleonora (ed.) 2020. The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas. Routledge: London and New York.

Bioeconomy & Inequalities

Widersprüchliche Ziele. Neue Bioökonomiestrategie der Bundesregierung.

Lehmann, Rosa; Backhouse, Maria; Puder, Janina. 2020. Widersprüchliche Ziele. Neue Bioökonomiestrategie der Bundesregierung. In: W&E 01-02/2020, pp. 5-6.

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Focus on Leakage: Informing Land-Use Governance in a Tele-Coupled World

Meyfroidt, P., Boerner, J., Garrett, R., Gardner, T., Godar, J., Kis-Katos, K., Soares-Filho, B. and S. Wunder. 2020. Focus on Leakage: Informing Land-Use Governance in a Tele-Coupled World. Environmental Research Letters (Special Issue)