Biofuel as social fuel: Introducing socio-environmental services as a means to reduce global inequity?

Venghaus, Sandra; Selbmann, Kirsten

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.11.003

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“…1/5; female Kaup and Selbmann (2013), Venghaus and Selbmann (2014), Selbmann (2015) http://www.kooperationinternational.de/detail/info/ verbundprojekt-biofuel-as-socialfuel-biokraftstoffe-als-sozialertreibstoff-einer-nachhaltigen-en. html career research groups is to promote scientific qualification in TSS (e.g., through Ph.…”

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Characteristics, emerging needs, and challenges of transdisciplinary sustainability science: experiences from the German Social-Ecological Research Program

Ruppert-Winkel¹,

Arlinghaus²,

Deppisch³

et al. 2015

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ABSTRACT. Transdisciplinary sustainability science (TSS) is a prominent way of scientifically contributing to the solution of sustainability problems. Little is known, however, about the practice of scientists in TSS, especially those early in their career. Our objectives were to identify these practices and to outline the needs and challenges for early career scientists in TSS. To that end, we compiled 10 key characteristics of TSS based on a literature survey. We then analyzed research groups with 81 early career scientists against these characteristics. All of these research groups are funded by an ongoing federally funded German program for socialecological research whose main feature is to promote sustainability-oriented inter-and transdisciplinary research. We found that the practices of the 12 groups generally correspond with the characteristics for TSS, although there is ample variation in how they were addressed. Three major challenges were identified: (1) TSS demands openness to a plurality of research designs, theories, and methods, while also requiring shared, explicit, and recursive use of TSS characteristics; (2) researchers in TSS teams must make decisions about trade-offs between achievements of societal and scientific impact, acknowledging that focusing on the time-consuming former aspect is difficult to integrate into a scientific career path; and (3) although generalist researchers are increasingly becoming involved in such TSS research projects, supporting the integration of social, natural, and engineering sciences, specialized knowledge is also required.

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Characteristics, emerging needs, and challenges of transdisciplinary sustainability science: experiences from the German Social-Ecological Research Program

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Arlinghaus²,

Deppisch³

et al. 2015

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“…Here, social aspects are represented by rural development, more specifically by new sources of demand of agricultural products and access to energy in rural areas (classified as opportunities), and the threat to food security in developing countries with negative implications for poverty levels due to the competition for resources (classified as a risk). The authors suggested payment for socio‐environmental services as a means to reduce global inequity 87 . Recently, D'Adamo et al .…”

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“…The authors suggested payment for socio-environmental services as a means to reduce global inequity. 87 Recently, D' Adamo et al 88 proposed a new socio-economic indicator based on three socio-economic parameters: turnover, represented by the market sales of goods or services, including all duties and taxes (except value added tax) and all other charges (transport, packaging, etc.) to customers; value added, defined by the gross income from operating activities after adjusting for subsidies, indirect taxes and value (e.g.…”

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Bioeconomy and biofuels: the case of sugarcane ethanol in Brazil

Karp¹,

Medina

Letti³

et al. 2021

Biofuels Bioprod Bioref

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Brazilian bioethanol is one of the most prominent biofuels produced on a large scale, representing 30% of the global fuel ethanol production share. Around 8.6 billion gallons were produced in 2019, second only to the US fuel ethanol production in the same period (15.8 billion gallons). Obtained from sugarcane in a highly energy‐efficient process, the biofuel, which can be used in Brazil as 100% ethanol (hydrated, minimum mass content of 92.5%) or in a volume proportion of 27% (anhydrous ethanol) in common gasoline, has contributed to the reduction of oil dependency and CO2 emissions, as well as to the development of an important economic sector. Pioneer biofuel policies and important advances in science and technology led to the establishment of a 46% renewable energy matrix. In this manuscript, an overview of the impacts of ethanol production and utilization will be given, with respect to environmental and socio‐economic concerns. The public policies and some technical aspects of sugarcane and ethanol production and energy cogeneration will be reviewed and discussed. © 2021 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

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“…as wind and erosion control or as fencing plant against cattle (see e.g. Mogaka et al, 2014), and afforestation or climate mitigation projects (Venghaus & Selbmann, 2014).…”

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Large-scale biofuel production and food security of smallholders: Evidence from Jatropha in Madagascar

Bosch

Zeller

2019

Food Sec.

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Large-scale agricultural investment in land was found to lead to positive employment and poverty reduction effects, however depending on the institutional context and the type of investment. This article aims to provide insights into the relationship between wage work for a large-scale Jatropha project and household food security, namely dietary diversity and food shortage. After the initial hype and the subsequent downfall of Jatropha, new projects are still being undertaken, yet little evidence in quantifying the long-term impacts of large-scale Jatropha production on smallholders' livelihoods exists. This article contributes to addressing this gap by using five rounds of panel data collected from 2008 to 2013 from 390 randomly selected households near a Jatropha project in Madagascar. Results show that labour demand declined substantially after the build-up phase and incomes from wage work were mostly used for food and other necessities. Impacts are estimated with the help of fixed effects models. Jatropha wage work contributed significantly to improved dietary diversity but not to a reduction of food shortage. Food production and consumption furthermore were highly influenced by seasonality, drought and locust plagues, which implies that complementing income creation with agricultural development strategies might have further positive effects on food security.

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Biofuel as social fuel: Introducing socio-environmental services as a means to reduce global inequity?

Cited by 14 publications

References 61 publications

Characteristics, emerging needs, and challenges of transdisciplinary sustainability science: experiences from the German Social-Ecological Research Program

Characteristics, emerging needs, and challenges of transdisciplinary sustainability science: experiences from the German Social-Ecological Research Program

Bioeconomy and biofuels: the case of sugarcane ethanol in Brazil

Large-scale biofuel production and food security of smallholders: Evidence from Jatropha in Madagascar

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