Dr. Maria Proestou

Dr. Maria Proestou erforscht die Gestaltung und Wirksamkeit von Bioökonomie-Politiken weltweit, mit aktuellem Fokus auf deren Resilienz-Orientierung und Implementationserfolg. Sie analysiert systematisch, wie über 50 Länder ihre Bioökonomie-Strategien ausgestalten, welche Policy-Instrumente sie einsetzen und ob diese tatsächlich die Widerstandsfähigkeit bio-basierter Produktionssysteme gegen Klimawandel, Pandemien und geopolitische Krisen stärken. Ihre Erkenntnisse helfen Regierungen und Organisationen, Bioökonomie-Politiken so zu gestalten, dass sie nachhaltige Transformation fördern, ohne bestehende Resilienz-Risiken zu verschärfen — relevant für Ministerien, Agrar- und Energiewirtschaft sowie internationale Entwicklungsorganisationen.

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• BIOPOLISTA - Bioökonomie-Policy-Implementation in Bioökonomie-Staaten

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  Förderer: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt Zeitraum: 03/2023 - 02/2028 Projektleitung: Dr. Nicolai Goritz, Dr. Maria Proestou, Dr. Maria Proestou

• A global analysis of bioeconomy visions in governmental bioeconomy strategies

  2023

  AMBIO · DOI

  Against the background of climate change and scarce non-renewable resources, transforming the fossil-based toward a bio-based economy is considered crucial for sustainable development. Numerous countries have released governmental strategies outlining their bioeconomy visions. This study examines the bioeconomy visions presented in 78 policy documents from 50 countries worldwide, building on earlier vision typologies. Through qualitative content analysis, 227 distinct policy goals were identified and analyzed. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the salience of specific goals, overarching goal categories, and distinct bioeconomy visions: bioresource, biotechnology, and bioecology visions. The results reveal that goals and visions prioritize economic growth, while environmental considerations are less salient. The bioresource vision emerges as the globally dominant perspective, while the bioecology and biotechnology visions have lower salience. These findings deepen our comprehension of current bioeconomy policies and emphasize the need for critical research on bioeconomy visions and their implications for public policy.

• Resilience and policy design in the emerging bioeconomy – the RPD framework and the changing role of energy crop systems in Germany

  2020

  Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning · DOI

  The resilience of social-ecological systems (SES) has become a major concern in environmental policy. The ongoing transition towards a bio-based economy essentially aims to address resilience challenges of the fossil-based economy. Its success depends on the resilience of the SES and bio-based production systems (BBPS) on which the bioeconomy rests. This paper introduces the Resilience Policy Design (RPD) framework to analyse and assess how bioeconomy policies address the resilience challenges of SES/BBPS. It combines resilience thinking and the ‘new’ policy design perspective, aiming at comparative research across countries, sectors and policy levels. It comprises five steps: determining relevant context conditions and the policy design space, characterizing bioeconomy policy mixes, identifying affected SES/BBPS and their resilience challenges, assessing the orientation of the policy mix towards different resilience capabilities (robustness, adaptability or transformability) and its resilience-enabling or -constraining elements, and overall assessment. An exemplary application focusing on energy maize in Germany finds a layered policy mix, addressing different resilience concerns over time. It demonstrates the inherently political nature of SES/BBPS resilience that requires inclusive, deliberative policy-making, the importance of policy feedback for adaptive and transformative governance with a long-term perspective, and the need for inter-/transdisciplinary collaboration to develop and assess resilience policies.