Socio-economic drivers in implementing bioenergy projects

Domac, Julije; Richards, Keith; Risović, Stjepan

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2004.08.002

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“…This work presents as a key point the explicit inclusion of the effect of renewable energy on the GDP, allowing to establish a link between income and CO 2 emissions [50]. In this work we consider that renewable energy can increase GDP through import substitution of energy which has direct and indirect effects on increasing GDP and trade balance.…”

Section: Economic Submodelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(7) a reduction of energy imports and an increase of the use of renewable energy have a positive influence in trade balance (c 1 is negative while c 2 positive in Table 2; note that E imp < 0 for net energy exports, as it is the case of Venezuela). The theory proposed by Domac et al [50] suggests that the use of renewable energy results in import substitution Table 2: Estimated coefficients for the GDP formation equations using the SUR technique (see Eqs. (5)- (9)).…”

Section: Economic Submodelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Studying the relationship between economic growth, CO2 emissions, and the environmental Kuznets curve in Venezuela (1980–2025)

Robalino-López

Nieto

García‐Ramos

et al. 2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

151

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This work tries to determine whether it is possible to stabilize CO 2 emissions under a rapid increase of Gross Domestic Product in a medium term. The paper is an effort to study in detail how changes in the driving forces of the economy affect CO 2 emissions. We study the case of Venezuela for the period 1980-2025, using the methodology proposed by Robalino-López et al. [1,2], which is based on an extension of the Kaya identity and on a GDP formation approach that includes the effect of renewable energies. We test the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) [3] hypothesis in a coming future under different economic scenarios considering, therefore, not only past data but also projections for the coming years. We use cointegration techniques [4] and the Jaunky [5] specification to test the fulfillment of the EKC hypothesis in Venezuela. Our predictions show that Venezuela does not fulfill the EKC hypothesis, but however, the country could be on the way to achieve environmental stabilization in the medium term. This stabilization could be accomplished combining economic growth with increasing use of renewable energy, appropriated changes in the energy matrix, and in the productive sectoral structure.

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Section: Economic Submodelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Economic Submodelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Studying the relationship between economic growth, CO2 emissions, and the environmental Kuznets curve in Venezuela (1980–2025)

Robalino-López

Nieto

García‐Ramos

et al. 2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

151

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“…This paper uses a perspective of environmental economics to include the influence of renewable energy usage directly contributing to the formation of the GDP (Domac et al, 2005). We assume that renewable energy can increase GDP and the import substitution of energy has direct and indirect effects on increasing the GDP and the trade balance (Taichen et al, 2008).…”

Section: Economic Submodelmentioning

confidence: 99%

System dynamics modelling and the environmental Kuznets curve in Ecuador (1980–2025)

et al. 2014

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Is it possible for a country in the process of development to comply with the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in the medium term? This is question that inspired this study. This paper is an extension of a previous study focused on economic development and CO 2 emissions in the coming years in Ecuador (Robalino-López et al., 2013). The main goal of this paper is to analyze whether the EKC hypothesis holds within the period 1980-2025 under four different scenarios. This paper uses co-integration techniques (Stock and Watson, 1993) to test the existence of the EKC hypothesis in Ecuador in the medium term using the Jaunky's specification (Jaunky, 2011). Our proposal goes a step further than previous contributions, and intends to see under which conditions a country could approach the fulfilment of this hypothesis in the medium term. Results do not support the fulfilment of the EKC, nevertheless, our estimations show that Ecuador could be on the way to achieving environmental stabilization in the near future if economic growth is combined with an increase in the use of renewable energies, an improvement of the productive sectoral structure, and the use of a more efficient fossil fuel technology.

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“…This change is driven both in the EU and in the US by socio-economic factors (Domac et al, 2005) as well as policy decisions (Charles et al, 2007) to increase the proportion of renewable components in transportation and energy sectors. Grasses represent a substantial reservoir of renewable lignocellulosic biomass that may be sustainably collected together with other agricultural residues as feedstock for so-called biorefineries with the scope of complete utilization of the cell wall components including lignins and hemicelluloses.…”

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Isolation of structurally distinct lignin–carbohydrate fractions from maize stem by sequential alkaline extractions and endoglucanase treatment

Sipponen

Lapierre

Méchin

et al. 2013

Bioresource Technology

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Sequential fractionation of extractive-free maize stems was carried out using two mild alkaline extractions (0.5 M and 2 M NaOH, 20°C, 24 h) before and after endoglucanase treatment. This procedure provided two lignin-carbohydrate fractions (LC1 and LC2) recovered after each alkali treatment. LC1 and LC2 contained 39% and 8% of the total lignin amount, respectively. These two fractions contained structurally distinct lignin molecules. While the content of resistant interunit bonds in lignin was 77% in LC1, it was increased up to 98% in LC2. Not unexpectedly, both alkali-soluble fractions contained substantial amount of p-coumaric and ferulic acids ether-linked to lignins. These results outline heterogeneity of maize stem lignins related to fractionation of grass materials.

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Socio-economic drivers in implementing bioenergy projects

Cited by 280 publications

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Studying the relationship between economic growth, CO2 emissions, and the environmental Kuznets curve in Venezuela (1980–2025)

Studying the relationship between economic growth, CO2 emissions, and the environmental Kuznets curve in Venezuela (1980–2025)

System dynamics modelling and the environmental Kuznets curve in Ecuador (1980–2025)

Isolation of structurally distinct lignin–carbohydrate fractions from maize stem by sequential alkaline extractions and endoglucanase treatment

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