A comparative analysis of Green, Circular and Bio-Economy
Circular Economy (CE), Green Economy (GE) and Bioeconomy (BE) are mainstreamed in academia and policy making as key sustainability narratives, but despite their evidently different standpoints and visions, a comparative study is missing. We have compared the three bodies of literature with a Latent Dirichlet Allocation analysis (D'Amato et al. 2016). An interactive display of the content analysis can be found through the links below.
The corresponding article has been published under a Creative Commons License 4.0 as:
D’Amato, D., Droste, N. , Allen, B., Kettunen, M., Lähtinen, K., Korhonen, J., Leskinen, P., Matthies, B.D., Toppinen, A. (2017) Green, Circular, Bio economy: a comparative analysis of sustainability avenues. Journal of Cleaner Production 168: 716–734. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.09.053
The respective R code can be found at github.
Acknowledgements:
This work was funded by Metsäteollisuustuotteiden Vientikaupan Edistämissäätiö. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of research projects ‘Sustainable, climate-neutral and resource-efficient forest-based bioeconomy’, funded by the Academy of Finland, Strategic Research Council (293380); ‘Operational Potential of Ecosystem Research Applications – OPERAS’, funded under the EU 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP7); ‘Searching for sustainable competitive future for the forest sector’, funded by the Academy of Finland (278363). We wish to thank researchers Riina Antikainen and Kati Pitkänen working at the Finnish Institute for the Environment (SYKE) for their important contributions in interpreting the findings. A particular thank-you goes to the developers of the Nails Project whose code we adapted for our analysis.