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Is an increased use...
Is an increased use of biofuels the road to sustainability?
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- Johansson, Sheshti (författare)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för energi och teknik,Department of Energy and Technology
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- Rydberg, Torbjörn (författare)
- SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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(creator_code:org_t)
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- 2017-02-10
- 2017
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: European Physical Journal Plus. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2190-5444. ; 132
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Abstract
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- The global area of planted biofuel crops has been increasing rapidly, but the environmental and social consequences of widespread adoption of biofuel production remain largely unexplored. How do we measure efficiency and net energy of a complex system, such as the interaction between agriculture, human society and technology? This paper provides background and identifies assumptions in its overview of competing and overlapping methods. We emphasize that biofuels, as well as all other resources with their associated processes, should be analyzed as embedded in complex systems. The reason why society looks at biofuels favorably is because the methodological approaches used in the present scientific literature are narrow and far from holistic. What is excluded from the analysis has crucial implications on what is regarded as sustainable.
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- TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER -- Industriell bioteknik -- Bioenergi (hsv//swe)
- ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY -- Industrial Biotechnology -- Bioenergy (hsv//eng)
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