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Food, Feed, Fuel, Timber or Carbon Sink? Towards Sustainable Land UseIntroduction

Food, Feed, Fuel, Timber or Carbon Sink? Towards Sustainable Land Use: Introduction [Concerns over global climate change, biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystem services have led to interest in using land in ways that mitigate these threats, particularly by growing various forms of energy crops to displace fossil fuels. In view of the competing demands on land to feed people adequately, mitigate climate change and sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services, there is a clear need for a systematic basis for allocating land to the competing uses with respect to economic and environmental objectives. The purpose of this study is to formulate an integrated environmental and economic sustainability assessment for comparing different land use strategies for food, feed, fuel, timber and carbon sink. The comparison should be carried out by analysing the systems within a wide boundary, so that it includes consequences in other parts of the world. The focus is the cultivation of crops for different uses and the subsequent displacement they cause. This requires methodological developments for the estimation of substitution effects. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is proposed for the environmental assessment, which requires the development of LCA methodologies and characterisation factors for assessing land use impacts on global climate change, ecosystem services and biodiversity. A parallel economic assessment is proposed to be integrated with LCA, also using a life cycle perspective.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Food, Feed, Fuel, Timber or Carbon Sink? Towards Sustainable Land UseIntroduction

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Springer Netherlands
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© The Author(s) 2021
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978-94-024-2097-5
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1 –14
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10.1007/978-94-024-2099-9_1
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Abstract

[Concerns over global climate change, biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystem services have led to interest in using land in ways that mitigate these threats, particularly by growing various forms of energy crops to displace fossil fuels. In view of the competing demands on land to feed people adequately, mitigate climate change and sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services, there is a clear need for a systematic basis for allocating land to the competing uses with respect to economic and environmental objectives. The purpose of this study is to formulate an integrated environmental and economic sustainability assessment for comparing different land use strategies for food, feed, fuel, timber and carbon sink. The comparison should be carried out by analysing the systems within a wide boundary, so that it includes consequences in other parts of the world. The focus is the cultivation of crops for different uses and the subsequent displacement they cause. This requires methodological developments for the estimation of substitution effects. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is proposed for the environmental assessment, which requires the development of LCA methodologies and characterisation factors for assessing land use impacts on global climate change, ecosystem services and biodiversity. A parallel economic assessment is proposed to be integrated with LCA, also using a life cycle perspective.]

Published: Apr 16, 2021

Keywords: Land use; Climate change; Ecosystem services; Biodiversity; Life cycle assessment (LCA)

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