Special Feature: Promises of Bioeconomic Change as a Strategy for Avoiding Socio-ecological Transformation

In this topical collection (14 articles)

1. Special Feature: Editorial

   The more things change, the more they stay the same: promises of bioeconomy and the economy of promises

   Dennis Eversberg, Philip Koch, Rosa Lehmann, Andrea Saltelli… Pages 557-568

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2. Special Feature: Overview Article

   The bioeconomy and its untenable growth promises: reality checks from research

   Dennis Eversberg, Jana Holz, Lilian Pungas Pages 569-582

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3. Special Feature: Original Article

   Understanding the bioeconomy through its instruments: standardizing sustainability, neoliberalizing bioeconomies?

   Thomas Vogelpohl Pages 583-597

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4. Special Feature: Original Article

   Is the EU shirking responsibility for its deforestation footprint in tropical countries? Power, material, and epistemic inequalities in the EU’s global environmental governance

   Eric Mensah Kumeh, Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen Pages 599-616

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5. Special Feature: Original Article

   Bioeconomy as a promise of development? The cases of Argentina and Malaysia

   Janina Puder, Anne Tittor Pages 617-631

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6. Special Feature: Review Article

   An extractive bioeconomy? Phosphate mining, fertilizer commodity chains, and alternative technologies

   Axel Anlauf Pages 633-644

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7. Special Feature: Case Report

   Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland

   Jana R. Holz Pages 645-659

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8. Special Feature: Case Report

   Where limits to growth are tangible: the olive sector in Jaén and its bioeconomic future

   Philip Koch Pages 661-674

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9. Special Feature: Original Article

   The making of sustainability: ideological strategies, the materiality of nature, and biomass use in the bioeconomy

   Miriam Boyer, Franziska Kusche, Sarah Hackfort, Louisa Prause… Pages 675-688

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10. Special Feature: Original Article

    Invisible (bio)economies: a framework to assess the ‘blind spots’ of dominant bioeconomy models

    Lilian Pungas Pages 689-706

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11. Special Feature: Original Article

    Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth

    Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen Pages 707-722

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12. Special Feature: Original Article

    The green growth narrative, bioeconomy and the foreclosure of nature

    Michael Franz Schmidlehner Pages 723-736

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13. Special Feature: Original Article

    From hegemony-reinforcing to hegemony-transcending transformations: horizons of possibility and strategies of escape

    Rachel Tome Valencia Hamilton, Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen Pages 737-748

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14. Special Feature: Note and Comment

    Reflections on the popularity of the circular bioeconomy concept: the ontological crisis of sustainability science

    Mario Giampietro Pages 749-754

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