Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma

By David Tilman, R. Socolow, J. Foley, Jason D. Hill, E. Larson, Lee R. Lynd, S. Pacala, J. Reilly, T. Searchinger, Chris Somerville and 1 more. Science, 2009

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Pollution

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Affluence drives the global displacement of land use (2013, background): “…to provide food, fiber, fuels, and construction materials limits humanity’s ability to preserve biodiversity (Butchart et al., 2010; Defries et al., 2010; Foley et al., 2005, 2011; Godfray et al., 2010; Lambin and Meyfroidt, 2011; Pauly et al., 2002; Tilman et al., 2009; Wirsenius et al., 2010).”
The Agricultural Ethics of Biofuels: The Food vs. Fuel Debate (2012, background): “It argued that future biofuels would need to address energy needs, but that doing so poses both environmental and food security challenges [34].”
Biomass and biofuels in China: Toward bioenergy resource potentials and their impacts on the environment (2018, background): “This may lead to a question beyond the scope of this review: how likely and how fast will bioenergy industry expand in China (and even globally) in the face of increasing demand of food, fiber and energy [110–113], and growing awareness of climate change and environmental sustainability [44,69,114]?”
Climate change impacts on global agricultural land availability (2011, background): “Furthermore, the marginally suitable lands have the potential to be utilized for biofuel crops, such as miscanthus and switchgrass (Tilman et al 2009, Cai et al 2011).”
Implications of Three Biofuel Crops for Beneficial Arthropods in Agricultural Landscapes (2010, background): “In particular, there is growing awareness of the potential ecological and societal ramifications of increased plantings of crop monocultures for fuel [24, 45].”
Biosecurity and sustainability within the growing global bioeconomy (2011, neutral): “Marginal land exploitation more generally poses increased threats to ecosystem services and biodiversity in remnant communities therein as well as reducing profitability and hence viability of production systems to the point where, particularly in developing countries, ‘slash and burn’ rather than s”
Potential of Plants from the Genus Agave as Bioenergy Crops (2012, background): “However, issues such as water usage, sustainability, greenhouse-gas emissions, biodiversity, competition with food supply, and general impacts on society are now recognized as equally important for consideration [49].”
Global developments in the competition for land from biofuels (2011, background): “switchgrass in the USA, willows in UK, offer several potential environmental protection benefits (Karp and Shield, 2008; Tilman et al., 2010) capturing these in parallel with high harvestable biomass yields will require skilful and balanced management.”
Biomass yield and energy balance of a short-rotation poplar coppice with multiple clones on degraded land during 16 years (2013, background): “use of chemicals, irrigation and fertilization), environmental challenges and competition with food crops can be minimized [8].”
Biofuels: Efficiency, Ethics, and Limits to Human Appropriation of Ecosystem Services (2010, background): “It needs a new collaboration between environmentalists, economists, technologists, the agricultural community, engaged citizens, and governments around the world’’ (Tilman et al. 2009, p. 271).”