Opportunities for bioenergy in the Baltic Sea Region

Silveira, Semida; Khatiwada, Dilip; Leduc, Sylvain; Kraxner, Florian; Venkata, Bharadwaj K.; Tilvikine, Vita; Gaubyte, Vilma; Romagnoli, Fransesco; Tauraite, Egle; Kundas, Semjon; Blumberga, Dagnija; Peterson, Kaja; Utsar, Katrina; Vīgants, Edgars; Kalinichenko, A. S.

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.036

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“…Using the trade-off concept in a more specific context, Liu et al ( 2018 ) look at carbon footprints and reactive nitrogen emissions related to various types of fuels, while Jensen et al ( 2012 ) emphasize trade-offs arising between conventional uses of legumes and their use as biorefinery and biofuel feedstock. The term “synergies” is present in one single abstract only (Silveira et al 2017 ) and is used in a rather general sense.…”

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“…Sasson and Malpica ( 2018 ), and Vega and Madrigal (2017) reviewed the state-of-the-art and potential development of the bioeconomy in Latin and Central America, respectively. Silveira et al ( 2017 ) discussed bioenergy initiatives and systems in eight Baltic countries, including the link between bioeconomy and ecosystem services. Strategic planning is recommended to mitigate trade-offs and enhance synergies with ecosystem services.…”

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Reviewing the interface of bioeconomy and ecosystem service research

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Bartkowski

Droste

2020

Ambio

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The bioeconomy is currently being globally promoted as a sustainability avenue involving several societal actors. While the bioeconomy is broadly about the substitution of fossil resources with bio-based ones, three main (competing or complementary) bioeconomy visions are emerging in scientific literature: resource, biotechnology, and agroecology. The implementation of one or more of these visions into strategies implies changes to land use and thus ecosystem services delivery, with notable trade-offs. This review aims to explore the interdisciplinary space at the interface of these two concepts. We reviewed scientific publications explicitly referring to bioeconomy and ecosystem services in their title, abstract, or keywords, with 45 documents identified as relevant. The literature appeared to be emerging and fragmented but eight themes were discernible (in order of decreasing occurrence frequency in the literature): a. technical and economic feasibility of biomass extraction and use; b. potential and challenges of the bioeconomy; c. frameworks and tools; d. sustainability of bio-based processes, products, and services; e. environmental sustainability of the bioeconomy; f. governance of the bioeconomy; g. biosecurity; h. bioremediation. Approximately half of the documents aligned to a resource vision of the bioeconomy, with emphasis on biomass production. Agroecology and biotechnology visions were less frequently found, but multiple visions generally tended to occur in each document. The discussion highlights gaps in the current research on the topic and argues for communication between the ecosystem services and bioeconomy communities to forward both research areas in the context of sustainability science.

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Reviewing the interface of bioeconomy and ecosystem service research

D'amato

Bartkowski

Droste

2020

Ambio

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“…It has been shown that biotechnologies contribute to the reduction of negative impact on the environment, promote the consumption of renewable resources, and optimize agriculture production, especially that of food products (Figure 1, left; Levidow, Birch, & Papaioannou, 2012;Aguilar, Bochereau, & Matthiessen, 2009;Woźniak & Twardowski, 2018). Biotechnologies are expected to contribute to economic systems, thus ensuring cleaner and safer production using renewable resources and recycling (Bell et al, 2018;Kircher, Breves, Taden, & Herzberg, 2018;Lokko et al, 2018;Silveira et al, 2017). From the consumption side, bio-based products are sustainable alternatives to manufactured products based on nonrenewable inputs (Aguilar, Wohlgemuth, & Wohlgemuth, 2018b;Dupont-Inglis & Borg, 2018;Mengal et al, 2018;Philp, 2018;Schütte, 2018).…”

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Evaluation of bioeconomy in the context of strong sustainability

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Baležentis

Štreimikienė

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Sustainable Development

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The implementation of bioeconomy is important in seeking to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Thus, in recent years, more attention is focused on sustainable bioeconomy. Referring to weak and strong sustainability approaches, many authors stated that bioeconomy is related only to weak sustainability, but this study provides a framework for policy makers that allows the definition and implementation of the bioeconomy based on the strong sustainability approach. Furthermore, researchers evaluating bioeconomy implementation conventionally encompassed the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of the impact of bio‐products; however, they did not consider the strong sustainability approach. Strong sustainability additionally requires not crossing ecological thresholds and, thus, implies consideration of planetary boundaries. Therefore, the inclusion of land footprint and biocapacity measures in the bioeconomy strategy, verifying that the land footprint does not exceed the level of biocapacity, is essential for the creation of a strongly sustainable bioeconomy. This study embarks on the definition of the bioeconomy based on strong sustainability and contributes to the discussion about bioeconomy implementation in the context of sustainable development.

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“…The analysis of production and biofuels, in recent years, has often been the subject of scientific research. Numerous studies have presented the dynamics of the liquid biofuel market [Borychowski 2014], the diversification of production costs of agricultural raw materials used to produce bioethanol [Klepacka, Mączyńska 2018], the impact of the production of energy crops on biodiversity [Immerzeel et al 2014, Lewandowski 2015, support for the bioenergy sector under EU policy [Rakowska, Gołębiewski 2017], advantages of bioenergy development in the sense of reducing GHG emissions [Souza et al 2017, Silveira et al 2017, the impact of biofuel production on food security [Tomei, Helliwell 2016, Wicki 2017, Zabaniotou 2018 and changes in the bioenergy value chain [Scheiterle et al 2018]…”

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Development of the Biofuel Market in the Ukraine

Gołębiewski

Kucher

2020

Annals PAAAE

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The state and prospects of development of the liquid biofuel market in the context of rationalization of the use of the available natural resource potential of the Ukraine are considered. It is established that, in general, the balance of renewable energy sources, production and use of liquid biofuels is negligible. It is noted that for the full development of the market of liquid biofuels, it is necessary to create a strong raw material base and appropriate infrastructure to ensure the storage, processing, transportation and sale of finished products. Attention is drawn to a lack of an effective public policy system that would encourage the production and use of bioethanol and biodiesel and the feasibility of developing a financial support programme for producers of this type of biofuel to ensure greater consumer appeal over traditional fuels. It is determined that in order to meet the indicators of the National Action Plan for the production of bioethanol and biodiesel, it is necessary to increase capacity and put new processing enterprises into operation. The structure of economic model formation is suggested, which reflects the necessary solutions for the development of the liquid biofuel market, which considers its benefits, risks, product confidence and types of support.

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Opportunities for bioenergy in the Baltic Sea Region

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

Reviewing the interface of bioeconomy and ecosystem service research

Reviewing the interface of bioeconomy and ecosystem service research

Evaluation of bioeconomy in the context of strong sustainability

Development of the Biofuel Market in the Ukraine

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