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Bioenergy Cropping Systems on Marginal Land
Author | : Stephanie Lyn Smith |
Publsiher | : ProQuest |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Agriculturally marginal land |
ISBN | : MSU:31293030626315 |
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Biofuel Cropping Systems
Author | : Hans Langeveld,John Dixon,Herman van Keulen |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781134624843 |
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Choosing appropriate practices and policies for biofuel production requires an understanding of how soils, climate, farm types, infrastructure, markets and social organisation affect the establishment and performance of these crops. The book highlights land use dynamics, cultivation practices related to conversion and wider impacts. It explores how biofuel production chain development is steered by emerging technologies and management practices and how both can be influenced by effective policies designed to encourage sustainable biofuel production. The book highlights major biofuel production chains including: cane cultivation in Brazil corn ethanol in the USA wheat and rapeseed in Europe oil palm in the Far East cane in Asia and Africa SRC and other lignocellulosic crops. In each case the development, cropping systems and impacts are discussed, system dynamics are shown and lessons drawn for the way things could or should change. Biofuel Cropping Systems is a vital resource for all those who want to understand the way biofuels are produced and how they impact other elements of society and especially how improvements can be made. It is a handbook for students, biofuel producers, researchers and policymakers in energy and agriculture.
Land Allocation for Biomass Crops
Author | : Ruopu Li,Andrea Monti |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9783319745367 |
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This edited volume establishes a forum for international experts to explore cutting-edge questions associated with the land use and biomass production. Topics include ‘do we have enough land, either primary or marginal, to accommodate future production of biomass?’, ‘how are farming decisions made in response to biomass incentives?’, ‘is the current bio-mass production socially, economically and environmentally sustainable?’, and ‘what are the main constraints currently limiting biofuel deployment?’ The expansion of biomass production is often at the cost of reduced land availability for food production and losses of areas with ecological functions such as forests and wetlands. This process often involves complex interplay of physical dynamics and human systems that are driven by numerous geographic and socio-economic factors at different scales. Thus, the state-of-the-art research on the land use issues surrounding the biomass production and its environmental impacts is important for informed land management decision making. This book will be of great use to researchers in land use management and biomass-based renewable energy, as well as practitioners.
Ex ante Analysis of a Novel Production Practice
Author | : Daniel F. Mooney |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1022269498 |
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This study develops ex-ante methods to analyze landowner decisions to supply land for bioenergy cropping systems. It complements previous research that uses budgeting and math programming methods to develop point estimates of breakeven values by incorporating heterogeneity in farm enterprises and landowner preferences for non-pecuniary benefits as factors that affect the opportunity cost of switching land uses. The three essays herein employ distinct methodological approaches, landowner populations, and empirical applications. Their respective objectives are: first, to identify the distribution of farm operator reservation prices to adopt bioenergy cropping systems; second, to examine the effect of preferences for non-pecuniary benefits on non-operators' willingness-to-accept to replace an existing land use; and third, to infer potential rates of adoption using recent historical data on disaggregated land cover. To accomplish the first two, contingent valuation surveys were conducted in four counties in Wisconsin with abundant physically-marginal land on which bioenergy cropping systems were hypothesized to be feasible. Regression analysis revealed that land opportunity costs vary significantly across farm enterprise types, median payments required to supply land are several multiples above budgeting breakeven values, and short-run land supply for bioenergy cropping systems will be inelastic and geographically-fragmented. Some optimism exists, however, because preferences over non-pecuniary benefits could lead some landowners to supply land at payment levels close to current land rental rates. The third objective was met by analyzing recent, statewide remote-sensing data on land cover change during a time of rising cropland profitability. Panel estimation mostly confirmed insight gained from the surveys. Overall, this study demonstrates the need for future assessments to consider heterogeneity in pecuniary and non-pecuniary opportunity costs when forecasting the supply of land for bioenergy systems.
Political Ecology of Industrial Crops
Author | : Abubakari Ahmed,Alexandros Gasparatos |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2021-09-02 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781000431209 |
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This book employs a political ecology lens to unravel how industrial crops catalyse ecological, agrarian, socioeconomic, and institutional transformation. Using the conceptual tools and perspectives of political ecology, namely multi-scalar analysis and attention to marginalisation, social difference, and discourses and narratives, this volume provides a critical and comprehensive assessment of the transformative power of industrial cropping systems. It presents a truly international overview by drawing on a range of case studies from the global South, including soybeans in South America, cashew nuts in Guinea Bissau, cotton in India, maize in China, jatropha in Ghana, sugarcane in Peru and Eswatini, and oil palm in Ghana and Peru. The unique case studies are put into perspective with chapters introducing the key concepts of political ecology and critical dimensions of industrial cropping systems related to large-scale land acquisitions, land grabbing, and marginal land. The individual chapters employ different approaches all rooted in political ecology, thus offering a rich overview of how the field engages with such cropping systems. Overall, this volume contains valuable propositions for improving current policies and practices in industrial crop settings in both developed and developing countries. Through its comprehensive and interdisciplinary outlook, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of political ecology, agrarian studies, development studies, and ecological economics.
Potential Environmental Impacts of Bioenergy Crop Production
Author | : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment |
Publsiher | : Congress |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UCR:31210024829895 |
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Woody Bioenergy Crops on Marginal Land
Author | : Rouse Smith Farnham,William Evan Berguson,Thomas E. Levar,Dale B. Sherf,University of Minnesota. Department of Soil Science |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 198? |
Genre | : Biomass energy |
ISBN | : OCLC:9719026 |
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The Role of Bioenergy in the Emerging Bioeconomy
Author | : Carmen Lago,Natalia Caldés,Yolanda Lechón |
Publsiher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2018-10-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780128130575 |
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The Role of Bioenergy in the Bioeconomy: Resources, Technologies, Sustainability and Policy provides the reader with a complete understanding on how bioenergy technologies fit into the new bioeconomy paradigm. Sections focus on the main resources and technologies for bioenergy and its integration in energy systems and biorefining chains, analyze the available methodologies for assessing the sustainability of bioenergy, and address and the propose approaches that are demonstrated through concrete case studies. Additionally, the implications of bioenergy in the water-energy and land nexus is presented, along with new challenges and opportunities. This book’s strong focus on sustainability of bioenergy, both as a standalone, and in the larger context of a bio-based economy, makes it a useful resource for researchers, professionals and students in the bioenergy field who need tactics to assess the lifecycle and sustainability of bioenergy technologies and their integration into existing systems. Presents a complete overview of the main challenges that bioenergy will have to overcome in order to play a key role in future energy systems Explores sustainability aspects in detail, both qualitatively and by applying proposed methodologies to concrete bioenergy case studies Covers, in detail, the water-energy-land nexus implications and governance aspects