Philip Peck
Senior lecturer
SOCIO-ECONOMIC METRICS FOR TRANSPORT BIOFUELS: A REVIEW
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Summary, in English
This report is a synthesis analysis to a project that has been carried out within the collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels and systems (Förnybara drivmedel och system), Project no. 40771-1, Environmental and Socio-Economic Benefits from Swedish Biofuel Produc- tion. The project has been financed by the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 – Swedish Knowledge Centre for Renewable Transportation Fuels.
The overarching aim of this analysis is to deliver increased knowledge of benefits that can be derived from biofuel production systems. The ambition is that this can support the development of more better policy instruments to support future biofuel production. At a lower level, this analysis seeks to provides a suite of values, or ‘value-spans’, for key socio-economic and environmental metrics associated with biofuels production and utilization. It is envisaged that such indicative per- formance measures can support biofuel-related industry actors, policy-makers, and political decision-makers in their communications regarding the future of transport biofuels.
This analysis has specific objectives to:
(i) Screen and review metrics published in publicly available literature that detail socio- economic benefits accruing from transportation biofuel production activities – with key emphasis on job creation;
(ii) Screen and review approaches (i.e. methods/methodologies) for assessment of socio- economic benefits in general that are connected to transportation biofuel production systems.
The overarching aim of this analysis is to deliver increased knowledge of benefits that can be derived from biofuel production systems. The ambition is that this can support the development of more better policy instruments to support future biofuel production. At a lower level, this analysis seeks to provides a suite of values, or ‘value-spans’, for key socio-economic and environmental metrics associated with biofuels production and utilization. It is envisaged that such indicative per- formance measures can support biofuel-related industry actors, policy-makers, and political decision-makers in their communications regarding the future of transport biofuels.
This analysis has specific objectives to:
(i) Screen and review metrics published in publicly available literature that detail socio- economic benefits accruing from transportation biofuel production activities – with key emphasis on job creation;
(ii) Screen and review approaches (i.e. methods/methodologies) for assessment of socio- economic benefits in general that are connected to transportation biofuel production systems.
Department/s
- The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Publishing year
2017
Language
English
Publication/Series
f3 report
Issue
09
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Document type
Report
Publisher
Swedish Knowledge Centre for Renewable Transportation Fuels (f3 Centre)
Topic
- Environmental Engineering
Keywords
- Environmental and Socio-Economic Benefits from Swedish Biofuel Prodution
Status
Published
Report number
2017