Land Allocation for Biomass Crops

✍ Scribed by Ruopu Li, Andrea Monti

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume establishes a forum for international experts to explore cutting-edge questions associated with the land use and biomass production. Topics include ‘do we have enough land, either primary or marginal, to accommodate future production of biomass?’, ‘how are farming decisions made in response to biomass incentives?’, ‘is the current bio-mass production socially, economically and environmentally sustainable?’, and ‘what are the main constraints currently limiting biofuel deployment?’

The expansion of biomass production is often at the cost of reduced land availability for food production and losses of areas with ecological functions such as forests and wetlands. This process often involves complex interplay of physical dynamics and human systems that are driven by numerous geographic and socio-economic factors at different scales. Thus, the state-of-the-art research on the land use issues surrounding the biomass production and its environmental impacts is important for informed land management decision making. This book will be of great use to researchers in land use management and biomass-based renewable energy, as well as practitioners.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Introduction (Ruopu Li, Andrea Monti)....Pages 1-6
Trends in Land Use in Spain and their Meaning to Bioenergy Production (Javier Sánchez, Pedro Luis Aguado, María Dolores Curt, Jesús Fernández)....Pages 7-38
Areas with Natural Constraints to Agriculture: Possibilities and Limitations for The Cultivation of Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) and Giant Reed (Arundo Donax L.) in Europe (Parenti Andrea, Lambertini Carla, Andrea Monti)....Pages 39-63
The Availability and Economic Analyses of Using Marginal Land for Bioenergy Production in China (Yuqi Chen, Xiubin Li, Xudong Guo, Chunyan Lv)....Pages 65-82
Production of Energy Crops in Heavy Metals Contaminated Land: Opportunities and Risks (Bruno Barbosa, Jorge Costa, Ana Luisa Fernando)....Pages 83-102
Farmers’ Acreage Responses to the Expansion of the Sugarcane Ethanol Industry: The Case of Goiás and Mato Grosso Do Sul, Brazil (Gabriel Granco, Marcellus Caldas, Allen Featherstone, Ana Cláudia Sant’Anna, Jason Bergtold)....Pages 103-123
Growing Switchgrass in the Corn Belt: Barriers and Drivers from an Iowa Survey (Sarah Varble, Silvia Secchi)....Pages 125-144
Impact of Stover Collection on Iowa Land Use (Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Dat Q. Tran)....Pages 145-157
Spatial-Temporal Change of Agricultural Biomass and Carbon Capture Capability in the Mid-South of Hebei Province (Yucui Zhang, Qiaoli Hu, Dengpan Xiao, Xingran Liu, Yanjun Shen)....Pages 159-187
Changes in Nitrogen Application and Conservation Reserve Program Area from Cellulosic Biofuel Production in the United States (Jerome Dumortier)....Pages 189-209
Back Matter ....Pages 211-217

✦ Subjects

Environment; Natural Resources; Environmental Geography; Energy Harvesting; Sustainable Development; Environmental Management