Summary:

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.

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Dewey Class: 333.9539 -- Land economics

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Physical Description: 6.1"x9.3"x1.3"; 1.6 lb; 439 pages
Edition Info: Hardcover; 2009-12-03

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