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[论文解读] Measuring the bioeconomy economically: exploring the connections between concepts, methods, data, indicators and their limitations

Sebastián Leavy, Gabriela Allegretti|arXiv (Cornell University)|Mar 13, 2024
Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development被引用 4
一句话总结

本文通过内容分析概念、方法、数据、指标和局限性,批判性地审视了生物经济的经济测量,分析了84项研究。研究发现,94%的研究依赖于基于生物量的生物经济(BmBB)概念,仅有3.5%的研究涉及整体性生物经济,凸显了当前测量框架中存在重大的概念与方法论空白。

ABSTRACT

Despite its relevance, measuring the contributions of the bioeconomy to national economies remains an arduous task that faces limitations. Part of the difficulty is associated with the lack of a clear and widely accepted concept of the bioeconomy and moves on to the connections between methods, data and indicators. The present study aims to define the concepts of bioeconomy and to explore the connections between concepts, methods, data and indicators when measuring the bioeconomy economically, and the limitations involved in this process. The bioeconomy concepts were defined based on a literature review and a content analysis of 84 documents selected through snowballing procedures to find articles measuring 'how big is the bioeconomy?'. The content of the 84 documents was uploaded to the QDA Miner software and coded according to the bioeconomy concept, the methods or models used, the data sources accessed, the indicators calculated, and the limitations reported by the authors. The results of the occurrence and co-occurrence of the codes were extracted and analyzed statistically, indicating that the measurement of bioeconomy (i) need recognize and pursue the proposed concept of holistic bioeconomy; (ii) rarely considered aspects of holistic bioeconomy (3.5%); (iii) is primarily based on the concept of biomass-based bioeconomy (BmBB) (94%); (iv) the association with the concept of biosphere (BsBB) appeared in 26% of the studies; (v) the biotech-based bioeconomy (BtBB) was the least frequent (1.2%); (vi) there is a diversity of methods and models, but the most common are those traditionally used to measure macroeconomic activities, especially input-output models; (vii) depending on the prevailing methods, the data comes from various official statistical databases, such as national accounts and economic activity classification systems;...

研究动机与目标

  • 基于全面的文献回顾,澄清并定义生物经济的核心概念。
  • 绘制生物经济概念、测量方法、数据来源、指标及报告局限性之间的关联图谱。
  • 识别在不同国家背景下,生物经济经济测量中的主导趋势与系统性空白。
  • 评估整体性或包含生物圈的生物经济概念在当前测量实践中反映的程度。
  • 为提升生物经济测量的一致性、透明度与概念严谨性,提供批判性基础。

提出的方法

  • 开展滚雪球式文献回顾,识别84项聚焦于“生物经济有多大?”的研究。
  • 使用QDA Miner软件上传并编码这84份文献的全文,进行主题分析。
  • 从五个维度对每项研究进行编码:生物经济概念、测量方法/模型、数据来源、计算指标及报告的局限性。
  • 对编码出现频率及共现情况进行统计分析,以识别变量间的模式与关系。
  • 通过内容分析追踪生物经济测量中概念框架与方法选择之间的相互作用。
  • 通过与期刊出版数据及DOI关联元数据交叉验证,确保研究发现的可靠性。

实验结果

研究问题

  • RQ1在经济测量研究中,用于定义生物经济的主导概念框架是什么?
  • RQ2方法选择如何与特定的生物经济概念及数据来源相关联?
  • RQ3在当前的测量实践中,整体性或包含生物圈的生物经济概念在多大程度上得到体现?
  • RQ4在生物经济经济评估中最常使用的数据来源和指标是什么?
  • RQ5在生物经济测量中最常报告的局限性是什么?这些局限性如何与概念和方法选择相关?

主要发现

  • 在所分析的研究中,94%使用了基于生物量的生物经济(BmBB)概念,表明其占据主导地位但概念范围较窄。
  • 仅有3.5%的研究考虑了整体性生物经济,凸显了在捕捉更广泛的生态与系统性维度方面存在显著空白。
  • 在26%的研究中提到了基于生物圈的生物经济(BsBB),表明对环境系统整合有一定认识。
  • 基于生物技术的生物经济(BtBB)代表性最弱,仅在1.2%的研究中出现。
  • 投入产出模型是最常见的方法论方法,其次为国家核算方法及投入产出混合模型。
  • 数据主要来源于官方国家账户和经济活动分类体系,对环境或生物物理数据的使用有限。

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