Ebook: Sustainable Bioenergy Production - An Integrated Approach

This book focuses primarily on the advantages and implications of sustainable bioenergy production in terms of ensuring a more sustainable world despite its growing energy demands. It addresses a new concept that focuses on the interactions between different uses of agricultural land (for example, agriculture for food, forage or energy and nature conservation) and their ecological, economic and societal impacts. This research concept provides new insights into the competition for resources and the synergies between different land uses. This book seeks to improve people’s understanding of bioenergy’s potentials for the future. It will be of interest not only to those involved in sustainable energy, but also to environmental planners, agriculture and soil specialists, and environmental policy-makers.

This book focuses primarily on the advantages and implications of sustainable bioenergy production in terms of ensuring a more sustainable world despite its growing energy demands.

It addresses a new concept that focuses on the interactions between different uses of agricultural land (for example, agriculture for food, forage or energy and nature conservation) and their ecological, economic and societal impacts. This research concept provides new insights into the competition for resources and the synergies between different land uses.

Until recently, the transition towards renewable energy has been generally misunderstood as only an economic demand, rather than as a means to gain various social and ecological advantages. Today biomass can be produced to generate energy and renewable raw materials, while simultaneously benefitting soil resources, water resources and biodiversity. The transition to a ‘greener’ economy is an important precondition in order to achieve the sustainable development of societies.

To develop a modern, forward-looking energy supply from biomass, such as biomass for heat and power generation, and liquid biofuels for transport, there should be a balance between the amount of biomass required for food production and for material purposes. Crop types, production methods and conversion technologies need to be matched with local conditions within the different landscapes to establish a national transformation plan, and to reduce the increasing land-use competition between food/fodder versus energy crop production, as well as the use of forests for energy.

Rethinking the linkages between bioenergy, climate change, land use and water requires an integrated assessment of the energy, land and water nexus.

This book highlights research aimed at providing an integrated approach to sustainable bioenergy development and seeks to improve people’s understanding of bioenergy’s potentials for the future. It will be of interest not only to those involved in sustainable energy, but also to environmental planners, agriculture and soil specialists, and environmental policy-makers.

This book focuses primarily on the advantages and implications of sustainable bioenergy production in terms of ensuring a more sustainable world despite its growing energy demands.

It addresses a new concept that focuses on the interactions between different uses of agricultural land (for example, agriculture for food, forage or energy and nature conservation) and their ecological, economic and societal impacts. This research concept provides new insights into the competition for resources and the synergies between different land uses.

Until recently, the transition towards renewable energy has been generally misunderstood as only an economic demand, rather than as a means to gain various social and ecological advantages. Today biomass can be produced to generate energy and renewable raw materials, while simultaneously benefitting soil resources, water resources and biodiversity. The transition to a ‘greener’ economy is an important precondition in order to achieve the sustainable development of societies.

To develop a modern, forward-looking energy supply from biomass, such as biomass for heat and power generation, and liquid biofuels for transport, there should be a balance between the amount of biomass required for food production and for material purposes. Crop types, production methods and conversion technologies need to be matched with local conditions within the different landscapes to establish a national transformation plan, and to reduce the increasing land-use competition between food/fodder versus energy crop production, as well as the use of forests for energy.

Rethinking the linkages between bioenergy, climate change, land use and water requires an integrated assessment of the energy, land and water nexus.

This book highlights research aimed at providing an integrated approach to sustainable bioenergy development and seeks to improve people’s understanding of bioenergy’s potentials for the future. It will be of interest not only to those involved in sustainable energy, but also to environmental planners, agriculture and soil specialists, and environmental policy-makers.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sustainable Bioenergy Production: An Integrated Perspective....Pages 3-35
Bioenergy Villages in Germany: Applying the Gottingen Approach of Sustainability Science to Promote Sustainable Bioenergy Projects....Pages 37-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Estimation of Global Bioenergy Potentials and Their Contribution to the World’s Future Energy Demand – A Short Review....Pages 75-95
A Process-Based Vegetation Model for Estimating Agricultural Bioenergy Potentials....Pages 97-110
Modelling Site-Specific Biomass Potentials....Pages 111-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Integrative Energy Crop Cultivation as a Way to a More Nature-Orientated Agriculture....Pages 143-180
Scale-Relevant Impacts of Biogas Crop Production: A Methodology to Assess Environmental Impacts and Farm Management Capacities....Pages 181-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Optimising Bioenergy Villages’ Local Heat Supply Networks....Pages 219-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Growth of Biogas Production in German Agriculture: An Analysis of Farmers’ Investment Behaviour....Pages 241-291
Social Acceptance of Bioenergy Use and the Success Factors of Communal Bioenergy Projects....Pages 293-318
Applying the Sustainability Science Principles of the Gottingen Approach to Initiate Renewable Energy Solutions in Three German Districts....Pages 319-338
Assessment of Different Bioenergy Concepts in Terms of Sustainable Development....Pages 339-384
Front Matter....Pages 385-385
Emissions of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants During the Combustion of Wood, Straw and Biogas....Pages 387-422
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
Bioenergy Production as an Option for Polluted Soils – A Non-phytoremediation Approach....Pages 425-444
Back Matter....Pages 445-451

This book focuses primarily on the advantages and implications of sustainable bioenergy production in terms of ensuring a more sustainable world despite its growing energy demands.

It addresses a new concept that focuses on the interactions between different uses of agricultural land (for example, agriculture for food, forage or energy and nature conservation) and their ecological, economic and societal impacts. This research concept provides new insights into the competition for resources and the synergies between different land uses.

Until recently, the transition towards renewable energy has been generally misunderstood as only an economic demand, rather than as a means to gain various social and ecological advantages. Today biomass can be produced to generate energy and renewable raw materials, while simultaneously benefitting soil resources, water resources and biodiversity. The transition to a ‘greener’ economy is an important precondition in order to achieve the sustainable development of societies.

To develop a modern, forward-looking energy supply from biomass, such as biomass for heat and power generation, and liquid biofuels for transport, there should be a balance between the amount of biomass required for food production and for material purposes. Crop types, production methods and conversion technologies need to be matched with local conditions within the different landscapes to establish a national transformation plan, and to reduce the increasing land-use competition between food/fodder versus energy crop production, as well as the use of forests for energy.

Rethinking the linkages between bioenergy, climate change, land use and water requires an integrated assessment of the energy, land and water nexus.

This book highlights research aimed at providing an integrated approach to sustainable bioenergy development and seeks to improve people’s understanding of bioenergy’s potentials for the future. It will be of interest not only to those involved in sustainable energy, but also to environmental planners, agriculture and soil specialists, and environmental policy-makers.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sustainable Bioenergy Production: An Integrated Perspective....Pages 3-35
Bioenergy Villages in Germany: Applying the Gottingen Approach of Sustainability Science to Promote Sustainable Bioenergy Projects....Pages 37-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Estimation of Global Bioenergy Potentials and Their Contribution to the World’s Future Energy Demand – A Short Review....Pages 75-95
A Process-Based Vegetation Model for Estimating Agricultural Bioenergy Potentials....Pages 97-110
Modelling Site-Specific Biomass Potentials....Pages 111-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Integrative Energy Crop Cultivation as a Way to a More Nature-Orientated Agriculture....Pages 143-180
Scale-Relevant Impacts of Biogas Crop Production: A Methodology to Assess Environmental Impacts and Farm Management Capacities....Pages 181-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Optimising Bioenergy Villages’ Local Heat Supply Networks....Pages 219-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Growth of Biogas Production in German Agriculture: An Analysis of Farmers’ Investment Behaviour....Pages 241-291
Social Acceptance of Bioenergy Use and the Success Factors of Communal Bioenergy Projects....Pages 293-318
Applying the Sustainability Science Principles of the Gottingen Approach to Initiate Renewable Energy Solutions in Three German Districts....Pages 319-338
Assessment of Different Bioenergy Concepts in Terms of Sustainable Development....Pages 339-384
Front Matter....Pages 385-385
Emissions of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants During the Combustion of Wood, Straw and Biogas....Pages 387-422
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
Bioenergy Production as an Option for Polluted Soils – A Non-phytoremediation Approach....Pages 425-444
Back Matter....Pages 445-451
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