By Alexandros Gasparatos, Per Stromberg
Biofuels are presently in the midst of a heated educational and public coverage debate. Biofuel creation has elevated fivefold long ago decade and is predicted to extra double by way of 2020. so much of this enlargement will take place in constructing international locations. This quantity is the 1st of its variety, supplying a finished evaluation of the biofuel debate in constructing international locations. The chapters are written by way of a multidisciplinary staff of specialists, exposing the main drivers and affects of biofuel creation and use. The publication covers affects as diversified as pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation, strength safety, foodstuff safeguard, greenhouse gasoline emissions, land use switch, rural improvement, water intake, and different socioeconomic matters. Its large concentration contains examples from international locations in Africa, the United States, and Asia. As such, this publication turns into an fundamental significant other to lecturers, practitioners, and coverage makers who desire to comprehend extra approximately biofuel matters within the constructing global.
Read or Download Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels: Evidence from Developing Nations PDF
Similar environmental & natural resources law books
In November 2003, the fee on Environmental legislations (CEL) of IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature and usual assets) introduced a brand new scholarly community of environmental legislation schools and professors: the IUCN Academy of Environmental legislations. The IUCN Academy, a consortium of specialised study facilities in collage legislations colleges around the world, constitutes a discovered society analyzing how legislations advances a simply society that values and conserves nature.
Polls and politics: the dilemmas of democracy
A provocative exam of the use and abuse of public opinion polls.
International Environment Cooperation: Politics and Diplomacy in Pacific Asia
This name brings jointly cutting edge and insightful experiences of overseas environmental politics during this more and more serious a part of the area. the 1st component to the ebook examines some of the matters and actors impacting foreign environmental co-operation, highlighting very important issues resembling co-operation among built and constructing nations, foreign justice, and neighborhood environmental protection.
Energy and Environmental Project Finance Law and Taxation: New Investment Techniques
Power and Environmental venture Finance legislations and Taxation: New funding thoughts offers practitioners with an invaluable and accomplished dialogue of strength and environmental undertaking finance because it is constructing and the place it really is entering into mild of latest criminal and tax principles. this can be the 1st time that across the world well-known legal professionals and economists proportion their wisdom, services, and insights during this very important and turning out to be undefined.
Additional info for Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels: Evidence from Developing Nations
Sample text
An interesting example is the case of the bioethanol industry in Pakistan, which, benefiting from special trade arrangements, was, by 2005, the second largest foreign supplier of bioethanol to the European Union (behind Brazil). , 2010). 6. , 2008). While subsidized biofuel programs may generate employment and income, it is not obvious to what extent they contribute to net public welfare in general and rural development in particular, especially when compared with other means of poverty alleviation and employment creation.
2010). Another source of complexity in assessing the welfare effect of biofuel expansion is that the negative effects of biofuel production on human welfare might not be proportional between genders. Araujo and Quesada-Aguilar (2007) make the case that biofuel initiatives have the potential to benefit women. If gender considerations are left out when planning biofuel policies, the livelihoods of women and their families might be threatened. Rossi and Lambrou (2008) discuss potential risks of first-generation biofuel expansion in developing regions, explaining that in several cases, these risks are gender differentiated, with women being more likely to face the negative socioeconomic and environmental impacts.
4. Market-oriented smallholders: Negotiation power and risk exposure A fact that is not always acknowledged in government expansion programs and seed company campaigns that target smallholders is that shifting to biofuel feedstock production can be a risky endeavor for smallholders. 3. , lower access to information, including information about prices in national and international commodity markets), which essentially restrict their market access and market power. , 2009). The Brazilian sugarcane sector is notorious for the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few actors who manage to control much of the economic rents from biofuel feedstock production (see Chapters 6 and 7).