Bioenergy Alongside Other Land Use: Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Bioenergy Development Scenarios

Autor: Göran Berndes, PM Foluke Quist-Wessel, J.W.A. Langeveld, Jan Wj van Esch
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: International Journal of Forest Engineering. 23:48-63
ISSN: 1913-2220
1494-2119
Popis: The development of bioenergy offers major possibilities for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel dependency, but negative impacts can also occur—e.g., the outcome for food production and biodiversity can be negative. This is a dilemma for policy: how to promote bioenergy developments that can substantially reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and fossil fuel use without jeopardizing other policy objectives. One major activity within IEA Bioenergy Task 30 and its successor Task 43 concerns strategies to integrate expanding bioenergy systems with the existing land use, in order to reduce land use competition and displacement risks, and with the aim of improving land use productivity and reducing negative environmental impacts of the existing land use.This paper presents the outcome of an activity within this topic area: an evaluation tool that is being developed for comparing alternative ways of producing biofuel feedstocks—here applied on selected approaches that combine fuel ...
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