Sustainability trade-offs in bioenergy development in the Philippines: An application of conjoint analysis

Acosta, Lilibeth A.; Eugenio, Elena A.; Enano, Nelson H.; Magcale-Macandog, Damasa B.; Vega, Belita A.; Macandog, Paula Beatrice M.; Eugenio, Jemimah Mae A.; Lopez, Marilou A.; Salvacion, Arnold R.; Lucht, Wolfgang

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2014.03.015

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“…Consideration of bioenergy, from biologically sourced feedstock, by-products and natural waste, as a renewable energy alternative involves an understanding of the full carbon life cycle of the energy source, environmental allocations (inputs and outputs) and extent of burden ("air pollution, acidification, eutrophication, ozone depletion, land use, etc.") [23,67,68], society's social values and choices, and the sustainability trade-offs these impose [23,57,69]. Where sustainability is defined as "capacity to achieve a balance between economic stability, social equity and ecological balance" [69].…”

Section: What Is Bioccs and Its Potential?mentioning

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Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

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BioCCS is a technology gaining support as a possible emissions reduction policy option to address climate change. The process entails the capture, transport and storage of carbon dioxide produced during energy production from biomass. Globally, the most optimistic energy efficiency scenarios cannot avoid an average temperature increase of +2 °C without bioCCS. Although very much at the commencement stage, bioCCS demonstration projects can provide opportunity to garner knowledge, achieve consensus and build support around the technology's properties. Yet many challenges face the bioCCS industry, including no guarantee biomass will always be from sustainable sources or potentially result in carbon stock losses. The operating environment also has no or limited policies, regulations and legal frameworks, and risk and safety concerns abound. Some state the key problem for bioCCS is cultural, lacking in a 'community of support', awareness and credibility amongst its own key stakeholders and the wider public. Therefore, the industry can benefit from the growing social science literature, drawing upon other energy and resource based industries with regard to social choice for future energy options. To this end, the following scoping review was conducted in order to ascertain gaps in existing public perception and acceptance research focusing on bioCCS.

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“…The attribute levels define the choice tasks in the survey questionnaire and are thus core elements in the CBC analysis. Figure 1 presents the Sustainability Trade-offs and Pathways (STRAP) framework ( [34,73]), which guided the selection of attributes and attribute levels. The STRAP approach takes into account the conceptual interconnections and interdependencies between the determinants and their underlying indicators of economic, social and ecological sustainability.…”

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“…These determinants represent the attributes and the indicators for these sustainability determinants represent the attribute levels in the survey design. A detailed discussion on the relevance of these determinants for bioenergy sustainability is available elsewhere ( [34,73]). The conjoint attributes and sustainability determinants have the same meaning and these terms will be both used throughout the paper.…”

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“…We used 50 versions of the questionnaire, each having different set of options per tasks. Note: A-C refer to the conjoint attributes, 1-3 refer to the attribute levels; * Following the sustainability concept for bioenergy, first generation (i.e., food) crops are less desirable than second generation (non-food) crops as sources of feedstock for bioenergy production (adapted from Acosta et al [34]). The objective of the choice-based conjoint analysis is to estimate part-worths or utilities, which measure the relative desirability or worth of an attribute level ( [74,75]), i.e., the higher the utility, the more desirable is the attribute level.…”

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“…Moreover, almost half of the NON-AGRI respondents also consider combined (i.e., mix energy) sources to have very high economic contribution. This could be attributed to the tradition of using various sources of energy in the Philippines [34]. Among the first generation bioenergy feedstock, oil-rich crops are generally perceived as most suitable feedstock, with majority of the Philippines respondents indicating high to very high level of contribution to economic growth.…”

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This paper discussed the analysis of the survey on sustainability of bioenergy conducted in the Philippines, India and China. It acquired general perceptions of the people by asking them (a) specific questions about their level of familiarity with bioenergy; (b) relationship of their work to bioenergy; and (c) their opinion on contribution of various feedstock on the economy and impact of bioenergy production on food security. In addition to these questions, we estimated preference weights of various feedstock based on the conjoint choices on bioenergy's contribution to social stability, social welfare and ecological balance. The estimates revealed significant trade-offs not only among these three dimensions of sustainability but also the relative importance of energy security, food security and ecosystem capacity to other economic, social and environmental objectives. The types of first generation feedstock that are currently used for biofuel production in the respective countries and those that offer alternative household use are perceived as important to the economy and preferred bioenergy feedstock. Based on the results of the study, the preferred role of bioenergy for sustainable development reflects the social and economic concerns in the respective Asian countries, e.g., energy security in China, food security in India, and ecosystem degradation in the Philippines.

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Sustainability trade-offs in bioenergy development in the Philippines: An application of conjoint analysis

Cited by 15 publications

References 41 publications

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