ABSTRACT

Regional bioeconomies promote sustainable, regional economies under the auspices of EU green growth policies. Combining prospects of rural rejuvenation, sustainability and innovation, they are employed to address climate change, societal challenges, and often benefit from substantial public funds. Yet, despite public finance's key role for bio-based transitions and (regional) bioeconomies, it has received little academic attention. Framed by conceptualisations on greening finance and (sustainable) policy narratives, this paper evaluates the public finance processes of three spatially variegated regional bioeconomy developments in Europe (Finland, Sweden, Spain). It provides empirical accounts from the case study sites and contrasts their public finance narratives with sustainable bioeconomy policy trajectories employed in EU policy promotion and benchmarking. This critical questioning of the current representations of regional bioeconomies in public finance narratives portrays a problematic mismatch between the dominant selective economic features and wider EU policy aims, particularly in relation to sustainability. Accompanied by the neglect of decisive local features in these benchmarking narratives, they promote a sustainably and spatially unreflective path forward for bioeconomy policy learning and development.

摘要

区域生物经济在欧盟绿色增长政策的支持下促进可持续的区域经济。结合乡村振兴、可​​持续性和创新的前景，它们被用来应对气候变化、社会挑战，并经常受益于大量公共资金。然而，尽管公共财政在基于生物的转型和（区域）生物经济中发挥着关键作用，但它几乎没有受到学术界的关注。本文以绿色金融和（可持续）政策叙述的概念为框架，评估了欧洲（芬兰、瑞典、西班牙）三个空间多样化的区域生物经济发展的公共财政过程。它提供了案例研究站点的实证说明，并将其公共财政叙述与欧盟政策促进和基准测试中采用的可持续生物经济政策轨迹进行了对比。这种对当前公共财政叙述中区域生物经济表现的批判性质疑描绘了占主导地位的选择性经济特征与更广泛的欧盟政策目标之间的问题不匹配，特别是在可持续性方面。伴随着对这些基准叙述中决定性的地方特征的忽视，它们促进了生物经济政策学习和发展的可持续和空间非反思性的前进道路。这种对当前公共财政叙述中区域生物经济表现的批判性质疑描绘了占主导地位的选择性经济特征与更广泛的欧盟政策目标之间的问题不匹配，特别是在可持续性方面。伴随着对这些基准叙述中决定性的地方特征的忽视，它们促进了生物经济政策学习和发展的可持续和空间非反思性的前进道路。这种对当前公共财政叙述中区域生物经济表现的批判性质疑描绘了占主导地位的选择性经济特征与更广泛的欧盟政策目标之间的问题不匹配，特别是在可持续性方面。伴随着对这些基准叙述中决定性的地方特征的忽视，它们促进了生物经济政策学习和发展的可持续和空间非反思性的前进道路。