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European Review of Agricultural Economics 2008 35(3):385-408; doi:10.1093/erae/jbn016
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This article appears in the following European Review of Agriculture Economics issue: Special Issue: Plenary Papers of the XIIth EAAE Congress, Ghent, 2008; Theme: People, Food and Environments: Global Trends and European Strategies [View the issue table of contents]

Energy production with agricultural biomass: environmental implications and analytical challenges{dagger}

Jan-Erik Petersen

European Environment Agency, Copenhagen

Corresponding author: Jan-Erik Petersen, European Environment Agency, Kongens Nytorv 6, 1050 Copenhagen K, Denmark. E-mail: jan-erik.petersen{at}eea.europa.eu

The paper reviews analytical challenges for assessing the environmental impact of bioenergy production in the context of global greenhouse gas emissions and global biofuel production targets. The main environmental issues associated with bioenergy production are briefly explained and used to describe different analytical approaches for assessing the environmental effects of bioenergy production. The paper discusses the relevance of suitable system boundaries in analysing the sustainability of bioenergy production. This includes the need for achieving coherence between several policy areas such as agriculture and food, energy and transport, climate and environment as well as international development. The review concludes with a range of research and policy challenges in the bioenergy field.

Keywords: bioenergy, agriculture, environment, analytical approaches, policy coherence

JEL classification: Q18, Q20, Q42, Q48

{dagger} The analysis and views presented in this paper should be taken as the personal perspective of the author and cannot be regarded as the official position of the European Environment Agency.


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