Karen M Siegel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1360985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen M Siegel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Siegel |
| SIGNATURE | SIEGEL K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Münster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4495-1580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Neglected SDGs as gaps in sustainability policy? The case of bioeconomy agendas in South America
Although the SDGs as set out in the 2030 Agenda are in theory indivisible, research has shown that in practice their uptake and implementation is often highly uneven. Whereas the phenomenon of cherry-picking has been well documented, we examine the other side of the coin, i.e. the neglect of certain SDGs, using the case of bioeconomy policy in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Through a combination of document analysis and a total of 50 stakeholder …
Social Sustainability in Circular Bioeconomy Business Models
Research on circular bioeconomy business models (CBEBM) has largely prioritised environmental and economic aspects, leaving out the social pillar. To address this gap, this paper analyses to what extent and in what ways social sustainability is integrated into CBEBM, based on 12 cases from northern Argentina, a region with high potential for circular bioeconomy, but also important social concerns. Our findings indicate a selective integration of …
Promoting Inclusiveness in Biodiversity Governance? Access and Benefit Sharing Under the Convention on Biological Diversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) established the legal principles for recognizing sovereign rights over genetic resources and brought forward conceptual innovations for safeguarding the collective rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities. However, there is little research into which governance structures at the national level are most effective for promoting fair and equitable benefit-sharing. This article has two aims: firs…
Prospects for a Just Transition Across Global Agrifood Chains
Demands for food system transformation are growing, but this presents distinct challenges as the sector is highly globalized and marked by global agrifood chains linking countries producing agricultural commodities in the Global South with countries importing them in the Global North. To understand possibilities for and limitations of a sustainability transition across global agrifood chains, it is crucial to examine cross-scale dynamics and the …
Possibilities for mainstreaming biodiversity? Two perspectives on the concept of bioeconomy
The concept of bioeconomy is increasingly gaining prominence as a potential pathway to reconcile conservation objectives with economic and social aspects. However, so far, dominant bioeconomy approaches have paid little attention to potential risks and negative impacts on biodiversity. This Perspective argues that it is crucial to integrate biodiversity into bioeconomy approaches. We argue that this can happen in two ways; by mainstreaming biodiv…
Disputing the bioeconomy-biodiversity nexus in Brazil
Environmental policy integration in a newly established natural resource-based sector
Contributing a new South American case study, this paper seeks to advance the research agenda on processes of policy integration by developing a better understanding of how nascent subsystems become integrated into mature ones and the role that changing beliefs of advocacy coalitions play in fostering policy integration. The paper examines environmental policy integration in Uruguay’s forestry sector since the 1990s and is based on an inductive q…
Introduction
As Latin America emerges scathed from the COVID-19 pandemic, the political pendulum appears to turn once again towards its longstanding calls for greater social inclusion. Inequality, inflation and continuous resource extraction without sufficient inclusiveness - in the forms of mining, expanding export-oriented agriculture or, increasingly, exclusionary approaches to sustainable development through renewable energy projects or the bioeconomy - h…
Fostering Transitions Towards Sustainability? The Politics of Bioeconomy Development in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil
The concept of bioeconomy is increasingly gaining attention in South America as a potential strategy to foster sustainability transitions. As bioeconomy development is intertwined with often contested questions of natural resource governance, it is important that the promotion of bioeconomy takes place in an inclusive manner. In three case studies from Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil we examine who takes up the concept, what interests are reflected…
Pulp Friction in the La Plata Basin
Over the last two decades, natural resource governance has become an increasingly important element of South American regionalism as commodities became a central driver for regional development strategies. Yet, due to socio-environmental impacts and dissatisfaction with decision-making processes, it is also frequently contested. This article focuses on one particularly prominent contestation with transboundary and regional repercussions, the case…
When international sustainability frameworks encounter domestic politics
Environment, Politics and Governance in Latin America
Environmental Governance in Latin America, edited by Fábio de Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, and Michiel Baud. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.Environmental Politics in Latin America: Elite Dynamics, the Left Tide and Sustainable Development, edited by Benedicte Bull and Mariel Aguilar-Støen. Routledge, 2015.A Fragmented Continent: Latin America and the Global Politics of Climate Change, by Guy Edwards and J. Timmons Roberts. MIT Press, 2015.Ecuador’s Envir…
Fulfilling Promises of More Substantive Democracy? Post-neoliberalism and Natural Resource Governance in South America
Benefiting from the commodity boom, progressive governments across South America have sought to move away from the neoliberal policies adopted previously by strengthening the role of the state and using revenues from commodity exports to address social concerns. This approach, often called neo-extractivism, has become the main development strategy over the past 15 years. Yet, the increasingly intensive and extensive natural resource exploitation …
Advocacy Research" versus "Management Review
When international sustainability frameworks encounter domestic politics
Environmental policy integration in a newly established natural resource-based sector
Contributing a new South American case study, this paper seeks to advance the research agenda on processes of policy integration by developing a better understanding of how nascent subsystems become integrated into mature ones and the role that changing beliefs of advocacy coalitions play in fostering policy integration. The paper examines environmental policy integration in Uruguay’s forestry sector since the 1990s and is based on an inductive q…
Fostering Transitions Towards Sustainability? The Politics of Bioeconomy Development in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil
The concept of bioeconomy is increasingly gaining attention in South America as a potential strategy to foster sustainability transitions. As bioeconomy development is intertwined with often contested questions of natural resource governance, it is important that the promotion of bioeconomy takes place in an inclusive manner. In three case studies from Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil we examine who takes up the concept, what interests are reflected…
Fulfilling Promises of More Substantive Democracy? Post-neoliberalism and Natural Resource Governance in South America
Benefiting from the commodity boom, progressive governments across South America have sought to move away from the neoliberal policies adopted previously by strengthening the role of the state and using revenues from commodity exports to address social concerns. This approach, often called neo-extractivism, has become the main development strategy over the past 15 years. Yet, the increasingly intensive and extensive natural resource exploitation …
Disputing the bioeconomy-biodiversity nexus in Brazil
Possibilities for mainstreaming biodiversity? Two perspectives on the concept of bioeconomy
The concept of bioeconomy is increasingly gaining prominence as a potential pathway to reconcile conservation objectives with economic and social aspects. However, so far, dominant bioeconomy approaches have paid little attention to potential risks and negative impacts on biodiversity. This Perspective argues that it is crucial to integrate biodiversity into bioeconomy approaches. We argue that this can happen in two ways; by mainstreaming biodiv…
Environment, Politics and Governance in Latin America
Environmental Governance in Latin America, edited by Fábio de Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, and Michiel Baud. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.Environmental Politics in Latin America: Elite Dynamics, the Left Tide and Sustainable Development, edited by Benedicte Bull and Mariel Aguilar-Støen. Routledge, 2015.A Fragmented Continent: Latin America and the Global Politics of Climate Change, by Guy Edwards and J. Timmons Roberts. MIT Press, 2015.Ecuador’s Envir…
Advocacy Research" versus "Management Review
Environment, Politics and Governance in Latin America
Environmental Governance in Latin America, edited by Fábio de Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, and Michiel Baud. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.Environmental Politics in Latin America: Elite Dynamics, the Left Tide and Sustainable Development, edited by Benedicte Bull and Mariel Aguilar-Støen. Routledge, 2015.A Fragmented Continent: Latin America and the Global Politics of Climate Change, by Guy Edwards and J. Timmons Roberts. MIT Press, 2015.Ecuador’s Envir…
Fulfilling Promises of More Substantive Democracy? Post-neoliberalism and Natural Resource Governance in South America
Benefiting from the commodity boom, progressive governments across South America have sought to move away from the neoliberal policies adopted previously by strengthening the role of the state and using revenues from commodity exports to address social concerns. This approach, often called neo-extractivism, has become the main development strategy over the past 15 years. Yet, the increasingly intensive and extensive natural resource exploitation …
When international sustainability frameworks encounter domestic politics
Pulp Friction in the La Plata Basin
Over the last two decades, natural resource governance has become an increasingly important element of South American regionalism as commodities became a central driver for regional development strategies. Yet, due to socio-environmental impacts and dissatisfaction with decision-making processes, it is also frequently contested. This article focuses on one particularly prominent contestation with transboundary and regional repercussions, the case…
Environmental policy integration in a newly established natural resource-based sector
Contributing a new South American case study, this paper seeks to advance the research agenda on processes of policy integration by developing a better understanding of how nascent subsystems become integrated into mature ones and the role that changing beliefs of advocacy coalitions play in fostering policy integration. The paper examines environmental policy integration in Uruguay’s forestry sector since the 1990s and is based on an inductive q…
Introduction
As Latin America emerges scathed from the COVID-19 pandemic, the political pendulum appears to turn once again towards its longstanding calls for greater social inclusion. Inequality, inflation and continuous resource extraction without sufficient inclusiveness - in the forms of mining, expanding export-oriented agriculture or, increasingly, exclusionary approaches to sustainable development through renewable energy projects or the bioeconomy - h…
Fostering Transitions Towards Sustainability? The Politics of Bioeconomy Development in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil
The concept of bioeconomy is increasingly gaining attention in South America as a potential strategy to foster sustainability transitions. As bioeconomy development is intertwined with often contested questions of natural resource governance, it is important that the promotion of bioeconomy takes place in an inclusive manner. In three case studies from Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil we examine who takes up the concept, what interests are reflected…
Possibilities for mainstreaming biodiversity? Two perspectives on the concept of bioeconomy
The concept of bioeconomy is increasingly gaining prominence as a potential pathway to reconcile conservation objectives with economic and social aspects. However, so far, dominant bioeconomy approaches have paid little attention to potential risks and negative impacts on biodiversity. This Perspective argues that it is crucial to integrate biodiversity into bioeconomy approaches. We argue that this can happen in two ways; by mainstreaming biodiv…
Disputing the bioeconomy-biodiversity nexus in Brazil
Promoting Inclusiveness in Biodiversity Governance? Access and Benefit Sharing Under the Convention on Biological Diversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) established the legal principles for recognizing sovereign rights over genetic resources and brought forward conceptual innovations for safeguarding the collective rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities. However, there is little research into which governance structures at the national level are most effective for promoting fair and equitable benefit-sharing. This article has two aims: firs…
Prospects for a Just Transition Across Global Agrifood Chains
Demands for food system transformation are growing, but this presents distinct challenges as the sector is highly globalized and marked by global agrifood chains linking countries producing agricultural commodities in the Global South with countries importing them in the Global North. To understand possibilities for and limitations of a sustainability transition across global agrifood chains, it is crucial to examine cross-scale dynamics and the …
Neglected SDGs as gaps in sustainability policy? The case of bioeconomy agendas in South America
Although the SDGs as set out in the 2030 Agenda are in theory indivisible, research has shown that in practice their uptake and implementation is often highly uneven. Whereas the phenomenon of cherry-picking has been well documented, we examine the other side of the coin, i.e. the neglect of certain SDGs, using the case of bioeconomy policy in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Through a combination of document analysis and a total of 50 stakeholder …
Social Sustainability in Circular Bioeconomy Business Models
Research on circular bioeconomy business models (CBEBM) has largely prioritised environmental and economic aspects, leaving out the social pillar. To address this gap, this paper analyses to what extent and in what ways social sustainability is integrated into CBEBM, based on 12 cases from northern Argentina, a region with high potential for circular bioeconomy, but also important social concerns. Our findings indicate a selective integration of …
Political science (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Corporate governance (7 works) · Sustainability (7 works) · Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development (5 works) · Natural resource (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Sustainable development (5 works) · Ecology (4 works)