Global Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production for Biomass Consumption in the European Union, 1986-2007.

ABSTRACT: The ongoing globalization process strengthens the connections between different geographic regions through trade. Biomass products, such as food, fiber, or bioenergy, are increasingly traded globally, thereby leading to telecouplings between distant, seemingly unrelated regions. For example, restrictions for agricultural production or changes in bioenergy demand in Europe or the United States might contribute to deforestation in Latin America or Sub-Saharan Africa. One approach to analyze trade-related land-use effects of the global socioeconomic biomass metabolism is the "embodied human appropriation of net primary production" or eHANPP. eHANPP accounts allocate to any product the entire amount of the human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) that emerges throughout its supply

SUBMITTER: Kastner T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4964918 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature