@article{Lukkarinen_2017, title={The scalar politics of sustainability: Bioenergy sustainability criteria and the rescaling of environmental governance in Europe}, volume={46}, url={https://aluejaymparisto.journal.fi/article/view/68850}, abstractNote={<p>The European Union relies heavily on bioenergy production to fulfil self-imposed renewable energy targets,<br>but there are serious doubts regarding the overall sustainability and carbon mitigation capacity of bioenergy.<br>As part of the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive, bioenergy sustainability criteria were introduced to provide<br>a verification framework, safeguards and transnational standards for sustainable bioenergy production. Even<br>though and because the criteria have not been established to their full extent, energy biomass sustainability<br>has emerged as an object of constant environmental governance rescaling, where elements, actors and<br>knowledge from different governance levels are entwined. This paper employs a scalar politics approach to<br>statements regarding biomass sustainability criteria. Policy documents are analysed on the basis of spatial,<br>jurisdictional and temporal scaling to provide insights about scalar dynamics and mismatches. The governance<br>of bioenergy sustainability could be improved through better understanding and acknowledgement of the<br>different scalar aspects of issues as well as the processes of rescaling.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Alue ja Ympäristö}, author={Lukkarinen, Jani}, year={2017}, month={joulu}, pages={4–17} }