The Biobased Economy

Biofuels, Materials and Chemicals in the Post-oil Era
Herausgeber: Langeveld, Hans; Meeusen, Marieke; Sanders, Johan

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Produktbeschreibung

Providing an illuminating framework as to how policy and market players could and should drive the development of a biobased economy that is effective, sustainable, fair and cost efficient. The result is an essential resource for all those working in or concerned with biobased industries, their policy or research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 629g
• ISBN-13: 9780415631327
• ISBN-10: 0415631327
• Artikelnr.: 35330782

Autorenporträt

Hans Langeveld is Director of Biomass Research, a research and consulting firm focussing on the development and evaluation of biobased and bioenergy production. He has a background in applied agronomic and economic research and combines a pragmatic approach with a clear analytical view. The main focus of his work is feedstock availability and sustainability (GHG emissions and land use change), market analysis and production development of biobased and decentral bioenergy production chains. Formerly, he was Senior Researcher at Plant Research International, Wageningen University and Research Centre, and Researcher at the Centre for World Food Studies of the Free University Amsterdam, both in the Netherlands. He has been project leader of a number of large bioenergy projects and is (co-)author of over 50 scientific papers as well as books on the biobased economy and on dynamics of European farming systems. Johan Sanders is Professor of Valorisation of Plant Production Chains at Wageningen University, and Research Leader in the Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, both at Wageningen University and Research Centre. He has held several research and management positions at leading agro-chemical industries in the Netherlands where he developed a unique vision on the application of biorefinery technologies and development of a biobased economy for the Netherlands. Marieke Meeusen is Senior Researcher in Sustainable Agricultural Chains in the Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Wageningen University and Research Centre, where she is Deputy Head of the Markets and Networks section, and leading a research programme on biobased economy. She is author of several studies on bioenergy and biobased economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Towards Sustainability 1. General Introduction 2. Transition
Towards a Biobased Economy 3. Challenges for Sustainable Development 4.
Principles of Plant Production 5. Plant Breeding and its Role in a Biobased
Economy 6. Biomass Availability Part 2: Biomass Refining and Conversion 7.
Biorefineries: Giving Value to Sustainable Biomass Use 8. Plant Production
of Chemical Building Blocks 9. The Production of Chemicals in a Biobased
Economy 10. Advanced Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass 11. Biogas Part
3: Actor Involvement 12. Policy Making for the Biobased Economy 13.
Biobased Industrialization in Developing Countries 14. Biobased Production
Chains 15. Biofuel Policies, Production, Trade and Land Use 16. Public
Debate on Sustainability of Biofuels Part 4: Transition in Action 17.
Biodiesel from Brazil 18. Biobased Products and Bioenergy in Germany 19.
Development of the Biobased Economy in Canada: An Overview 20. A Biobased
Economy for the Netherlands 21. Synthesis