Assessing Bioeconomy Development Opportunities in the Latvian Policy Planning Framework

Krista Laktuka (), Dagnija Blumberga and Stelios Rozakis
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Krista Laktuka: Institute of Energy Systems and Environment, Faculty of Electrical and Environmental Engineering, Riga Technical University, LV-1048 Riga, Latvia
Dagnija Blumberga: Institute of Energy Systems and Environment, Faculty of Electrical and Environmental Engineering, Riga Technical University, LV-1048 Riga, Latvia

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-17

Abstract: The broad spectrum of bioresource use makes it challenging to interconnect strategic objectives and policy planning documents without compromising a coherent development vision. Bioeconomy development directions have been defined at the EU and Latvian levels. Nevertheless, to facilitate their implementation, the goals must be consistent with those specified in relevant national policy planning documents and vice versa. To determine whether internationally defined bioeconomy objectives are implemented in Latvian policy planning documents and what priority is given to them, a mixed methods approach was used—a systematic literature review combined with a keyphrase assignment approach. The results are summarized in an illustrative screening matrix and aggregated using the TOPSIS method to identify in which policy planning documents bioeconomy objectives are prioritized and to what extent. The results have shown a high prioritization of bioeconomy objectives in Latvian policy planning documents, especially in hierarchically higher documents.

Keywords: bioeconomy strategy; policy coherence; policy framework; strategic development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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