Bioenergy from “surplus” land: environmental and socio-economic implications

By J. Dauber, Chris G. Brown, A. Fernando, J. Finnan, E. Krasuska, Jens Ponitka, D. Styles, D. Thrän, K. V. Groenigen, M. Weih and 1 more. 2012

195 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The increasing demand for biomass for the production of bioenergy is generating land-use conflicts. These conflicts might be solved through spatial segregation of food/feed and energy producing areas by continuing producing food on established and productive agricultural land while growing dedicated energy crops on so called “surplus” land. Ambiguity in the definition and characterization of surplus land as well as uncertainty in assessments of land availability and of future bioenergy potentials is causing confusion about the prospects and the environmental and socio-economic implications of bioenergy development in those areas. The high level of uncertainty is due to environmental, economic and social constraints not yet taken into account and to the potentials offered by those novel crops and their production methods not being fully exploited. This paper provides a scientific background in support of a reassessment of land available for bioenergy production by clarifying the terminology, identifying constraints and options for

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Biomedical Engineering, Pollution

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. I. Lewandowski
2. Michael B. Jones
3. J. Finnan
4. T. Hodkinson
5. M. Brancourt‐Hulmel
6. H. Zub

In Biomedical Engineering

1. I. Lewandowski
2. M. Brancourt‐Hulmel
3. H. Zub

In Pollution

1. P. Manning
2. Gail Taylor
3. Mick E. Hanley

Citations in the corpus

• Marginal Agricultural Land Low-Input Systems for Biomass Production (2019, background): “, for medicinal or food purposes), and change of land use should take this element into account [112].”
• Bioenergy, Food Production and Biodiversity – An Unlikely Alliance? (2015, background): “The costs of managing and harvesting diffuse bioenergy crop plantations, and transporting the products, may well preclude their establishment (Dauber et al., 2012).”
• Morphological and physiological traits for higher biomass production in perennial rhizomatous grasses grown on marginal land (2015, background): “In some circumstances, maximum biomass production, and minimum environmental impact, on marginal land may be achieved by utilizing the biomass already growing on such land (Tillman et al., 2006; Dauber et al., 2012).”