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The importance of land use change in the environmental balance of biofuels
| العنوان: | The importance of land use change in the environmental balance of biofuels |
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| المؤلفون: | Ben Aoun, Wassim, Gabrielle, Benoit, Gagnepain, Bruno |
| المساهمون: | Environnement et Grandes Cultures (EGC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroParisTech, Service Bioressources, Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maitrise de l'Energie |
| المصدر: | OCL Oléagineux Corps Gras Lipides ; https://hal.science/hal-01003402 ; OCL Oléagineux Corps Gras Lipides, 2013, article no D505,, 12 p. open access. ⟨10.1051/ocl/2013027⟩ |
| بيانات النشر: | HAL CCSD |
| سنة النشر: | 2013 |
| المجموعة: | Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique: ProdINRA |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | sustainability, life cycle assessment, biofuels, lan use change, uncertainty, [SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences |
| الوصف: | The potential of first generation biofuels to mitigate climate change is still largely debated in the scientific and policy-making arenas. It is currently assessed through life cycle assessment (LCA), a method for accounting for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a given product from "cradle-to-grave", which is widely used to aid decision making on environmental issues. Although LCA is standardized, its application to biofuels leads to inconclusive results often fraught by a high variability and uncertainty. This is due to differences in quantifying the environmental impacts of feedstock production, and the difficulties encountered when considering land use changes (LUC) effects. The occurrence of LUC mechanisms is in part the consequence of policies supporting the use of biofuels in the transport sector, which implicitly increases the competition between various possible uses of land worldwide. Here, we review the methodologies recently put forward to include LUC effects in LCAs, and examples from the US, Europe and France. These cross analysis show that LCA needs to be adapted and combined to other tools such as economic modeling in order to provide a more reliable assessment of the biofuels chains. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | hal-01003402; https://hal.science/hal-01003402; https://hal.science/hal-01003402/document; https://hal.science/hal-01003402/file/2013BenAoun-OCL_1.pdf; PRODINRA: 214036 |
| DOI: | 10.1051/ocl/2013027 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hal.science/hal-01003402 https://hal.science/hal-01003402/document https://hal.science/hal-01003402/file/2013BenAoun-OCL_1.pdf https://doi.org/10.1051/ocl/2013027 |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.6CE773E4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1051/ocl/2013027 |
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