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  title info:
    title: Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy
  name:
    name part: Khanna, Madhu.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Scheffran, Jürgen.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Zilberman, David.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 439 p. 88 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Bioenergy Economics and Policy: Introduction and Overview -- Are Biofuels the Best Use of Sunlight? -- Perennial Grasses as Second-Generation Sustainable Feedstocks Without Conflict with Food Production -- Present and Future Possibilities for the Deconstruction and Utilization of Lignocellulosic Biomass -- Interactions Between Biofuels, Agricultural Markets and Trade -- Price Transmission in the US Ethanol Market -- Biofuels and Agricultural Growth: Challenges for Developing Agricultural Economies and Opportunities for Investment -- Prospects for Ethanol and Biodiesel, 2008 to 2017 and Impacts on Agriculture and Food -- The Global Bioenergy Expansion: How Large Are the Food?Fuel Trade-Offs? -- Demand Behavior and Commodity Price Volatility Under Evolving Biofuel Markets and Policies -- Designing the Infrastructure for Biofuels -- Optimizing the Biofuels Infrastructure: Transportation Networks and Biorefinery Locations in Illinois -- The Capital Efficiency Challenge of Bioenergy Models: The Case of Flex Mills in Brazil -- Environmental Effects of Biofuels and Biofuel Policies -- Could Bioenergy Be Used to Harvest the Greenhouse: An Economic Investigation of Bioenergy and Climate Change? -- A Simple Framework for Regulation of Biofuels -- Market and Social Welfare Effects of the Renewable Fuels Standard -- US–Brazil Trade in Biofuels: Determinants, Constraints, and Implications for Trade Policy -- Food and Biofuel in a Global Environment -- Meeting Biofuels Targets: Implications for Land Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Nitrogen Use in Illinois -- Corn Stover Harvesting: Potential Supply and Water Quality Implications -- Economic Effects of Bioenergy Policies -- International Trade Patterns and Policy for Ethanol in the United States -- The Welfare Economics of Biofuel Tax Credits and Mandates -- Biofuels, Policy Options, and Their Implications: Analyses Using Partial and General Equilibrium Approaches -- Welfare and Equity Implications of Commercial Biofuel -- Euro…
  note: edited by Madhu Khanna, Jürgen Scheffran, David Zilberman.
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Energy industries
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Development economics
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural economics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  subject:
    topic: Energy Economics
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural Economics
  subject:
    topic: Development Economics
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  classification: HC79.E5
  classification: 333.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Natural Resource Management and Policy ; 33
  identifier: 9781441903693
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0369-3
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204143600.0
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