Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of biofuels : evidence from developing nations
"Biofuels are currently in the middle of a heated academic and public policy debate. Biofuel production has increased fivefold in the past decade and is expected to double by 2020. Most of this expansion will happen in developing nations. This book is the first of its kind, providing a comprehe...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Biofuels at the confluence of energy security, rural development, and food security : a developing country perspective
- 2. The interrelations of future global bionergy potentials, food demand, and agricultural technology
- 3. Air pollution impacts of biofuels
- 4. Water for bionergy : a global analysis
- 5. The challenges of estimating tropical deforestation due to biofuel expansion
- 6. The Brazilian bioethanol and biodiesel programs : drivers, policies, and impacts
- 7. Power, social impacts, and certification of ethanol fuel : view from the northeast of Brazil
- 8. Implications of global ethanol expansion on Brazilian regional land use
- 9. Biofuel expansion in Southeast Asia : biodiversity impacts and policy guidelines
- 10. Jatropha production for biodiesel in Yunnan, China : implications for sustainability at the village level
- 11. Biofuels and Africa : impacts and linkages at the household level
- 12. Energy security, agroindustrial development, and international trade : the case of sugarcane in Southern Africa
- 13. Environmental and socioeconomic considerations for jatropha growing in Southern Africa
- 14. Biofuels in developing countries : a synthesis