Spaces of the forest-based bioeconomy in Finnish Lapland and Catalonia: practitioners, narratives and forgotten spatialities

IF 1.3 Q2 GEOGRAPHY Fennia-International Journal of Geography Pub Date : 2022-07-07 DOI:10.11143/fennia.109523
Diana Morales
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Over the last decade, the bioeconomy has been increasingly promoted as a strategy able to shift our economies away from fossil fuels and boost local economic growth, especially of rural areas in Europe. The bioeconomy is an important part of the European Union agenda, it is promoted through European wide strategies that are translated into local and regional policies. However, the bioeconomy does not unfold equally across regions; it has different implications influenced by the spaces and the narratives with which the policies are created and implemented. Amongst all the actors participating in the bioeconomy strategies, local practitioners play a crucial role in interpreting the narratives and implementing the policies in a way that makes sense for their local contexts. Hence, there is a need to understand how local and regional practitioners apply bioeconomy strategies to grasp how those are expressed in different regional contexts. Through the case studies of the forest-based bioeconomy in Catalonia and Finnish Lapland, this paper explains why economic narratives prevail in the local bioeconomy and how regional spatialities are affected by it. The cases show that the bioeconomy remains close to economic growth and is applied through regional economic development policies, thus focusing on specific economic sectors and hindering the role of the bioeconomy in a wider regional transformation. Understanding the narratives and how these reflect the spatialities help us to advance a spatially sensitive approach to the bioeconomy, this is, a bioeconomy practised according to the socio-spatial conditions, closer to ideas of inclusivity, plurality and justice, and with a greater role in a wider regional transformation, rather than the greening of specific economic sectors.
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芬兰拉普兰和加泰罗尼亚森林生物经济的空间:实践者、叙事和被遗忘的空间
在过去的十年中,生物经济作为一种能够使我们的经济摆脱化石燃料并促进当地经济增长的战略而日益受到推崇,特别是在欧洲农村地区。生物经济是欧洲联盟议程的重要组成部分,它通过欧洲范围内的战略得到促进,这些战略转化为地方和区域政策。然而,生物经济在各区域的发展并不均衡;它具有不同的含义,受到创建和实施政策的空间和叙述的影响。在参与生物经济战略的所有行动者中,当地从业者在解释叙事和以适合当地环境的方式实施政策方面发挥着至关重要的作用。因此,有必要了解当地和区域从业者如何应用生物经济战略,以掌握这些战略在不同区域背景下的表达方式。本文通过对加泰罗尼亚和芬兰拉普兰森林生物经济的案例研究,解释了为什么经济叙事在当地生物经济中盛行,以及它如何影响区域空间性。这些案例表明,生物经济仍然与经济增长密切相关,并通过区域经济发展政策加以应用,因此侧重于特定的经济部门,阻碍了生物经济在更广泛的区域转型中的作用。理解这些叙事以及它们如何反映空间性,有助于我们推进对生物经济的空间敏感方法,即根据社会空间条件实践的生物经济,更接近包容性、多元化和正义的理念,并在更广泛的区域转型中发挥更大的作用,而不是特定经济部门的绿化。
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