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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Indirect land use change"”.
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Impacts and Feasibility of the US and the EU Sustainability Criteria on Existing Land-Use Practices
<p>Several studies have examined the land use and economic consequences of national and multi-national biofuel policies. They explored the impacts of biofuels mandates mainly based on the quantitative biofuel targets. However, the recently updated renewable policies of the United States and the …
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Life Cycle Environmental and Cost Evaluation of Bioenergy Systems
… of replacing gasoline with ethanol for use in California’s light-duty vehicle fleet to meet the State’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The Ontario studies show that, relative to coal-based electricity generation, electricity generated from co-firing 10% (energy input) biomass with coal …
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Modelling spatial variation and environmental impacts of land use change in the exploitation of land-based renewable bioenergy crops
… particular importance to the sustainability of land based energy crops, due both to the need to minimise feedstock transport, and to the importance of cultivation site attributes in determining key environmental impacts. This study uses geographical information system (GIS) mapping to identify …
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Environmental sustainability of biobased products : new assessment methods and case studies
Certain environmental issues, as climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels, gave support to the renaissance of a biobased economy, where products are to be produced mainly from biomass (so-called biobased products). However, biobased products do not automatically mean environmentally …
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Certification for biofuel: a means to sustainable development?
… U.S., have adopted policies to promote greater use of biofuel, with the hope that biofuel can be used to meet the sustainability goal of reducing carbon emission associated with conventional fossil fuel. However, biofuel production, if not implemented with care, can bring about lots of …
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Land Matters : Agrofuels, Unequal Exchange, and Appropriation of Ecological Space
As a global society we are entering an era where land areas and land-based resources are coming to the fore once again for capital accumulation and economic growth, for the first time since the end of the 18th century when Malthus forecasted a contradiction between population growth and …
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Bilan éthique de la soutenabilité environnementale (bilan carbone ou bilan de gaz à effet de serre) et sociale (sécurité alimentaire) des biocarburants de première génération à partir du débat d’inclure ou non dans les analyses du cycle de vie les émissions de gaz à effet de serre des changements indirects d’affectation des sols ‒ un point de vue pragmatiste deweyen
… les émissions de gaz à effet de serre issues du changement indirect d’affectation des sols des biocarburants de première génération. Selon ce débat, en raison de l’insécurité alimentaire suscitée, il serait justifié d’inclure les émissions de gaz à effet de serre issues de la culture vivrière ou …