Swedish food system transformations: Rethinking biogas transport logistics to adapt to localized agriculture

Metson, Geneviève S.; Sundblad, Anton; Feiz, Roozbeh; Quttineh, Nils-Hassan; Mohr, Steve

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2021.10.019

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“…Another concern is that animal excreta often contains antimicrobial additives such as heavy metals and veterinary drugs, which could affect soil biology (Li et al., 2011). Several recent studies have focused on the role of renewable energy production as a way to overcome manure cost issues (Metson et al., 2022; Vanttinen, 2022); however, the manure transportation and fermentation process can also produce greenhouse gases, resulting environmental problems (Guo et al., 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

Changes in Canada's Phosphorus Cycle 1961–2018: Surpluses and Deficits

Wang

Bennett

2022

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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Human activities have greatly changed global phosphorus (P) cycling, posing urgent challenges related to both supply uncertainty and aquatic eutrophication. However, the long-term dynamics of P across Canada remain unquantified and under-explored. Using a material flow analysis model, we quantified temporal dynamics of P cycling in Canadian provinces from 1961 to 2018 and characterized the changes in soil P balances through the study period. We found most Canadian agricultural regions had soil P surpluses except Saskatchewan, where large P deficits (−10-0 kg ha −1 y −1 ) were detected in almost all study years (except 1961). In 2018, Quebec and Atlantic provinces had the highest P surpluses (34 and 159 kg ha −1 y −1 , respectively), and low P surpluses were observed in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia (9, 16, 5, and 28 kg ha −1 y −1 , respectively). P surplus was reduced in Quebec and Ontario after the nutrient management regulations were put in place in the 1980s. We demonstrated that P flows in cropland played a larger role in Canada P cycling than pasture. P use efficiency tended to be greatest in the Prairie provinces (0.74 in 2018), and least in the Atlantic provinces (0.12 in 2018). However, the rate of increase was considerably steeper in Ontario and Quebec than other provinces. Reducing inorganic fertilizer and manure application would be the most effective method to reduce remaining P surpluses. WANG ET AL.

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Changes in Canada's Phosphorus Cycle 1961–2018: Surpluses and Deficits

Wang

Bennett

2022

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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“…However, there is still a paucity of research that focuses on the movement of goods within rural areas and between rural and urban areas (the scope of rural logistics services in this study). Second, most previous studies focused on low‐carbon logistics systems at the regional level, exploring the causal relationships among economic growth, regional logistics and carbon emissions (Metson et al, 2022; Zhang et al, 2021). By contrast, this study develops a model based on the operational process of rural logistics from an industrial perspective.…”

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Towards low‐carbon transition: Coordinating development and decarbonisation in rural logistics

Bian

2023

Syst Res Behav Sci

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Over the past decade, there is a growing global call for low carbon development. However, there is no adequate low‐carbon policies to address the trade‐off between rural logistics development and low‐carbon goals. Jiangsu is one of the pilot sites for most of China's policy reforms and has the potential to develop a low carbon transformation of rural logistics. Therefore, we provide an in‐depth analysis of the above trade‐offs from an industrial perspective by integrating the key features of rural logistics into a unified framework and modelling a rural logistics system dynamic model using rural logistics in Jiangsu as a case study. We compare the development trend of Jiangsu's rural logistics industry from 2021 to 2030 under the traditional development model, the green image policy, the fixed carbon policy and the fixed carbon tax rebate policy. The findings show that, first, in the absence of policy intervention, rural logistics in Jiangsu will not actively adopt any low‐carbon behaviour, which will lead to an inevitable rise in CO2. Second, the simulation results in fixed carbon policy show that the policies that impose excessive burdens on rural logistics are invalid rural logistics that need enough funds to develop their own supply capacity and carbon abatement capacity. Third, the green image policy is more advantageous in addressing the trade‐offs between rural logistics development and the low‐carbon transition, which not only avoids burdening rural logistics but also improves the supply capacity of rural logistics by increasing the demand for rural logistics. Finally, the government can implement the green image policy in the early stage and then introduce the carbon tax rebate policy in the middle stage to improve and increase the capacity of the rural logistics sector to embrace low carbon transition, which can help implement subsequently implement the carbon tax rebate policy.

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“…Coordinated action among stakeholders (from multiple biogas companies, to municipal governments and farmers) can benefit from geo-spatially explicit systems analysis of site-locations to screen for strategic locations for biogas production given stated priorities (e.g. Metson et al (2021aMetson et al ( , 2021b) which looked at maximizing nutrient recycling and minimizing transport costs). Considering the influential role of land-use planning documents on biogas plants, and the (often) slow update process of such documents, explicitly integrating biogas solutions would facilitate win-win expansion across these functions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…manure from livestock production) to areas where they are highly demanded (e.g. crop production regions) (Metson et al, 2021a(Metson et al, , 2021b. If plant locations are not coordinated, then there is a chance that plants that are built at a later date cannot effectively contribute to nutrient recycling because transport distances are economically unviable.…”

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“…When parameters (factors) for site-selection of a single (or group of) biogas plant(s) are known, and geo-spatial information about the region is available, site-selection analysis can be assisted by mathematical approaches such as optimization (e.g. Metson et al, 2021aMetson et al, , 2021b or quantitative multi-criteria analysis (e.g. Akther et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

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