Biosecurity as an integral part of the new bioeconomy: a path to a more sustainable future

Sheppard, Andy; Raghu, S.; Begley, Cameron; Genovesi, Piero; Barro, Paul De; Tasker, Al; Roberts, Bill

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2010.12.012

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“…In most cases, authors identified an overarching lack of dedicated funding, time, or other resources to achieve environmentally sustainable objectives [34,36,47,51,[53][54][55]61,69,72,90,93,98,113,119,121]. In other cases, the tasks required of institutions were found to be beyond the resources allocated to them [48,49,60,87,110,122].…”

Section: Implementation Trapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The majority of these studies cited insufficient incentives to adopt environmentally sustainable practices as a trap and argued for greater economic incentives [30,32,38,42,45,55,63,66,67,69,74,75,83,84,95,102,117]. Some found that there were insufficient incentives to implement a policy or comply with regulations as a result of either a lack of official accountability or a lack of public demand for action [34,36,48,54,60,82,87,108,109].…”

Section: Implementation Trapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The majority of these papers described examples where those charged with policy implementation lacked sufficient skills, training or knowledge needed for success [33,37,45,48,53,60,61,69,72,74,77,91,93,96,98,110,119]. Some studies discussed problems with the transfer of policies or technology to developing countries as a result of limited capacity [55,90,102,119]. Mol [102], for example, found that some developing countries lack the capacity to regulate biofuels.…”

Section: Implementation Trapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First was a lack of research into the problem or solution in cases such as energy production, irrigation and food security, carbon dependence, and biosecurity [55,59,67,114]. Second, there were misconceptions about the cause of the environmental issues [48,56,74,91,98,115].…”

Section: Knowledge/scope Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The third cause was low levels of economic development and the impacts of development on the environment, particularly in Asia and Africa [37,48,[50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58]. As Boadi [53] found, waste disposal, water supply and pollution in the urban areas of Africa were still a significant and growing concern due to poor economic performance limiting the human and material resources available to deal with problems.…”

Section: Interrelated Structural Causesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

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For a generation, governments around the world have been committed to sustainable development as a policy goal. This has been supported by an array of new policies ranging from international agreements, to national strategies, environmental laws at many levels of government, regional programs, and local plans. Despite these efforts, decades of scientific monitoring indicate that the world is no closer to environmental sustainability and in many respects the situation is getting worse. This paper argues that a significant contributing factor to this situation is policy implementation failure. A systematic review of the literature reveals that the failure to achieve the intended outcomes of environmental policies is due to economic, political and communication factors. Conflict between the objectives of environmental policies and those focused on economic development, a lack of incentives to implement environmental policies, and a failure to communicate objectives to key stakeholders are all key factors that contribute to the inability to attain environmental sustainability.

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Section: Implementation Trapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implementation Trapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implementation Trapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Knowledge/scope Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Interrelated Structural Causesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Importance of Weeds in Plant Biosecurity

Sheppard

Koop

Hill

2013

The Handbook of Plant Biosecurity

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Modeling the biomass production of the biofuel crop Miscanthus x giganteus, to understand and communicate benefits and risks in cultivation

Pallipparambil

Raghu

Wiedenmann

2015

Energy for Sustainable Development

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Bioenergy crop models predict harvestable biomass using known variables, and illustrate key parameters that determine the crop yield. We developed a model, using the systems software STELLA, to provide a conceptual representation of Miscanthus × giganteus crop system and understand various parameters and their influence on the growth and loss of harvestable biomass. Using data from four locations, we developed a model and used it to predict yields comparable to reported biomass production from Champaign, IL, thus validating the model structure. Sensitivity analyses of model variables suggested that solar radiation, rainfall, temperature, soil water holding capacity, solar energy interception and conversion efficiency, evapotranspiration, crop coefficient, irrigation and harvest date significantly influenced the predicted harvestable biomass. The flexible STELLA platform also allows the stakeholders to expand and modify the model to incorporate additional variables if required and ultimately enables informed decision-making for bioenergy crop production at any location.

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Biosecurity as an integral part of the new bioeconomy: a path to a more sustainable future

Cited by 12 publications

References 38 publications

Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

The Importance of Weeds in Plant Biosecurity

Modeling the biomass production of the biofuel crop Miscanthus x giganteus, to understand and communicate benefits and risks in cultivation

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