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| Tekijä: | Hellmann, F. Verburg, P. H. |
| Otsikko: | Impact assessment of the European biofuel directive on land use and biodiversity |
| Lehti: | Journal of Environmental Management
2010 : JUN, VOL. 91:6, p. 1389-1396 |
| Asiasana: | land use biodiversity regulations European Union |
| Vapaa asiasana: | biofuels direct effects indirect effects |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This article presents an assessment of the potential impact of the EUs biofuel directive on European land use and biodiversity. It is determines which ecologically valuable land use types are likely to be directly replaced by biofuel crops as well as land use types may be indirectly replaced by biofuel crops through competition over land between biofuel and food crops. Based on that four scenarios of land use change are analyzed for the period 2000-2030 while for each scenario two policy variants are analyzed respectively with and without implementation of the biofuel directive. It is show: 1) the direct effects of the directive on European land use and biodiversity are relatively minor. The indirect effects of the directive on European land use and biodiversity are much larger than its direct effects. The little difference is found between the policy variants with respect to the forest area. 2) indirect effects need to be taken explicitly into account in assessing the environmental effects of biofuel crop cultivation and designing sustainable pathways for implementing biofuel policies. |
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