Rethinking links between bioenergy, climate change, land use and water, this book highlights research that offers an integrated approach to sustainable bioenergy development and seeks to improve understanding of the present and future potential of bioenergy.

This book focuses primarily on the advantages and implications of sustainable bioenergy production in terms of ensuring a more sustainable world despite its growing energy demands. It addresses a new concept that focuses on the interactions between different uses of agricultural land (for example, agriculture for food, forage or energy and nature conservation) and their ecological, economic and societal impacts. This research concept provides new insights into the competition for resources and the synergies between different land uses. This book seeks to improve people's understanding of bioenergy's potentials for the future. It will be of interest not only to those involved in sustainable energy, but also to environmental planners, agriculture and soil specialists, and environmental policy-makers.

Provides an integrated approach to sustainable bioenergy development Illuminates how to avoid conflicts regarding bioenergy production Provides decision support for a further extension of bioenergy on the local and regional scale Illustrates how to apply sustainability-science principles in villages and districts Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Martin Kappas ist Professor für Kartographie, GIS & Fernerkundung am Geographischen Institut der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Er hat Geophysik, Geologie und Geographie an den Universitäten Bonn und Köln studiert und an der Universität Mannheim promoviert und sich habilitiert. Nach einer Tätigkeit am Geologischen Landesamt Nordrhein-Westfalen war er zunächst wissenschaftlicher Assistent, dann Privatdozent am Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Geographie der Universität Mannheim, ehe er im Jahr 2000 nach Göttingen ging.

Inhalt
Part I: Setting the scene.- Part II: Do we have enough? - Biomass potentials for energy generation.- Part III: Can bioenergy production be environmentally sound?.- Part IV: Economic optimisation of bioenergy production.- Part V: Bridging bioenergy production and society.- Part VI: Combustion of biomass for heat and power.- Part VII: Bioenergy from polluted soils.- Index.