A Comprehensive Energy and Economic Assessment of Biofuels: When “Green” Is Not Enough

By Sergio Ulgiati. 2001

168 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. David Zilberman
2. M. Paoletti
3. Deepak Rajagopal
4. T. Gomiero
5. D. Pimentel

In Environmental Engineering

1. David Zilberman
2. Deepak Rajagopal
3. Hong Yang
4. D. Pimentel
5. Arjen Y. Hoekstra

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. David Zilberman
2. Yuan Zhou
3. Deepak Rajagopal
4. T. Gomiero
5. D. Pimentel

Citations in the corpus

• Land and water requirements of biofuel and implications for food supply and the environment in China (2009, background): “Hence, net energy return or energy return on investment (EROI) of biofuel is of an important concern alongside the land and water footprint of biofuel (Ulgiati, 2001).”
• Review of Environmental, Economic and Policy Aspects of Biofuels (2007, background): “Another drawback is these crops are intensive in the use of one or more among inputs like land, water, fertilizer, pesticides, etc., which have other environmental implications (Pimentel and Patzek 2005; Ulgiati 2001; Giamipietro, Ulgiati, and Pimentel 1997; Farrell 2006).”
• Biofuels: Efficiency, Ethics, and Limits to Human Appropriation of Ecosystem Services (2010, background): “…(that is: average crop productivity, use of inputs, use of by products, environmental impact assessment, discount time, etc.), claim the opposite (e.g., Boardman 1980; Pimentel et al. 1981; Giampietro et al. 1997; Ulgiati 2001; Pimentel and Patzek 2005; Giampietro and Mayumi 2009; MacKay 2009).”