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Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
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Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
Series: Natural Resource Management and Policy, 33
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Concerns about energy security, uncertainty about oil prices,
declining oil reserves, and global climate change are fueling a
shift towards bioenergy as a renewable alternative to fossil fuels.
Public policies and private investments around the globe are aiming
to increase local capacity to produce biofuels. A key constraint to
the expansion of biofuel production is the limited amount of land
available to meet the needs for fuel, feed, and food in the coming
decades. Large-scale biofuel production raises concerns about food
versus fuel tradeoffs, about demands for natural resources such as
water, and about potential impacts on environmental quality. The
book is organized into five parts. The introductory part provides a
context for the emerging economic and policy challenges related to
bioenergy and the motivations for biofuels as an energy source. The
second part of the handbook includes chapters that examine the
implications of expanded production of first generation biofuels
for the allocation of land between food and fuel and for food/feed
prices and trade in biofuels as well as the potential for
technology improvements to mitigate the food vs. fuel competition
for land. Chapters in the third part examine the infrastructural
and logistical challenges posed by large scale biofuel production
and the factors that will influence the location of biorefineries
and the mix of feedstocks they use. The fourth part includes
chapters that examine the environmental implications of biofuels,
their implications for the design of policies and the unintended
environmental consequences of existing biofuel policies. The final
part presents economic analysis of the market, social welfare, and
distributional effects of biofuel policies.
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