Using Energy Crops for Biofuels or Food: The Choice

• Main Authors: Paschalidou, Annoula (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tsatiris, Michael (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kitikidou, Kyriaki (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Papadopoulou, Christina (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Green Energy and Technology,
• Subjects: Renewable energy resources.; Natural resources.; Climate change.; Agricultural economics.; Biodiversity.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Natural Resources.; Agricultural Economics.

This book performs a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis to examine the current food crisis and how it relates to the use of crops for energy. It analyses how energy crops may help solve humankind's environmental changes and summarises the economic and practical cha...

Table of Contents:

• Global nutritional need- The Energy problem
• Bioenergy - Biomass - Energy crops
• Biofuels
• Biomass-Biofuels and Sustainable approach
• Using Energy Crops for Biofuels or Food:the Choice
• Methods
• Results and Discussion
• Alternative strategies
• Conclusions.