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Increasing concerns about energy security and climate change mitigation have led to significant policy support for biofuels, particularly for cellulosic biofuels. This paper examines the short- and long-run effects of Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) on the mix of agricultural and forest biomass,...
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sustainable development objectives (notably food security, biodiversity preservation, poverty alleviation and job creation), in a …
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As average growth consumptions per capita and world population will continue to grow, the promotion of sustainable … air, soil and water. Biodiversity must be taken into account at both levels to cope also with climate change. But as … emission from deforestation as well as biodiversity are threatened by further and inevitable land use change. Increasing yields …
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A concern of many environmentalists is that the use of biomass energy will decimate the forests. Searchinger et al. (2008, 2009) examined this issue related to corn ethanol and suggested that substituting corn ethanol for petroleum would increase carbon emissions associated with the land...
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This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth, biodiversity loss and efforts to conserve … biodiversity using a combination of panel and cross section data. If economic growth is a cause of biodiversity loss through … associated with increasing real demand for biodiversity conservation, then investment to protect remaining diversity should grow …
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The rapid development of climate policies and the need to understand the dynamics of climate change have highlighted and shaped the role of land use, land-use change and forestry dynamics (LULUCF), making it an issue of global importance. As a consequence, LULUCF has become a central topic in...
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