Gender and women in scientific literature on bioeconomy: A systematic review

Sanz-Hernández, A. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Jiménez-Caballero, P. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Zarauz, I. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: A social vision is slowly emerging of the bioeconomy as an avenue towards sustainability. This paper presents a systematic review of the existing literature on the connection between gender (as a social dimension) and bioeconomy. We have reviewed 244 scientific publications which explicitly mention bioeconomy and gender/women in their title, abstract, keywords or text; 127 documents were identified as having high (19) or medium (108) gender-oriented centrality. The literature is fragmented but six cross-sectional key themes have been identified: Gender and social impacts of the bioeconomy; gender equality as a goal and a just policy; gender differences in perceptions, discourses and strategies relating to the bioeconomy; women as potential stakeholders and actors in the transition towards bioeconomy; frameworks, strategies, and tools to connect gender and the bioeconomy; and gender inequalities and geography. Moreover, they show hardly any connection with the three predominant social currents in the struggle for gender equality: grassroots social movements, ecofeminism, and intersectionality. The paper concludes by identifying key pathways for future research to address current gaps. We suggest integrating a feminist metatheoretical base with an integrative ontology, an epistemology that recognises its own partiality and situationality, and a methodology sensitive to the specificities of the contexts which are committed to the goal of transforming women''s everyday contexts. © 2022

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102762

Año: 2022

Publicado en: FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS 141 (2022), 102762 [15 pp.]
ISSN: 1389-9341

Factor impacto JCR: 4.0 (2022)

Categ. JCR: FORESTRY rank: 6 / 69 = 0.087 (2022) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: ECONOMICS rank: 84 / 380 = 0.221 (2022) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES rank: 45 / 128 = 0.352 (2022) - Q2 - T2

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 8.3 - Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Q1) - Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Q1) - Social Sciences (Q1) - Environmental Science (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.124 - Economics and Econometrics (Q1) - Sociology and Political Science (Q1) - Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (Q1) - Forestry (Q1)

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Sociología (Dpto. Psicología y Sociología)