Frames in environmental policy integration: Are Swedish sectors on track?

Viveca Sjöstedt and Daniela Kleinschmit

Environment and Planning C, 2016, vol. 34, issue 3, 515-528

Abstract: Abstract This paper explores whether and how frames used within different sectors in Sweden concerned with bioenergy from forest products are driven by environmental objectives. It complements existing research on environmental policy integration (EPI) in bioenergy policies of political-administrative Swedish sectors by conducting a frame analysis of articles published in three journals in Sweden that represent the energy, agricultural and forestry sectors. Ten frames that were used consistently across the three sectors in the time period from 2001 to 2010 were identified. Environmental rhetoric, one of the prerequisites for EPI, was identified; however, it plays only a secondary role given that bioenergy frames focus mainly on economic objectives, presenting bioenergy as a means of increasing profitability.

Keywords: policy; bioenergy; environmental policy integration; forest (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/0263774X15602895

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