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Philip Peck

Philip Peck

Senior lecturer

Philip Peck

STRATEGIES TO LEVERAGE BIOFUEL CROP CO-BENEFITS

Author

  • Philip Peck
  • Yuliya Voytenko

Summary, in English

Economies in Transition (EiTs) exemplified by countries such as Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova etc. face many socio-economic and environmental challenges – energy security, high unemployment, poor transportation and municipal service infrastructure, and rural depopulation are common themes. Agricultural biofuel production offers a number of socio-economic co-benefits that can contribute to the alleviation of such challenges, particularly in rural areas, but there are significant barriers to establishment of large scale plantings in most countries. With a point of departure in coherent co-benefit strategies that have been demonstrated to some extent in Western and Northern Europe, this paper extends their relevance to the social and economic situation in EiTs. It examines a number of strategies for how agro-biofuel co-benefits might be leveraged to provide both the stimulus required for large scale plantings and tangible flow-on socio-economic benefits. The discussion presents a series of areas where a new industry based on biomass energy carrier production can provide a range of co-benefits of importance. However, it is also noted that large scale modern agriculture – including biofuel agriculture – can have drawbacks that do need to be carefully monitored.

Department/s

  • The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

50-56

Publication/Series

Proceedings Poster Session World Bioenergy 2008 - Conference and Exhibition for Biomass from Bioenergy: Taking you from know-how to show-how 27-29 May, 2008. Jönköping, Sweden

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Swedish Bioenergy Association (SVEBIO) and ELMIA AB

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • agriculture
  • socio-economic aspects
  • rural development
  • energy crops

Conference name

World Bioenergy 2008 - Conference and Exhibition for Biomass from Bioenergy: Taking you from know-how to show-how

Conference date

2008-05-27

Conference place

Jönköping, Sweden

Status

Published