Bioenergy production and sustainable development: science base for policymaking remains limited.

ABSTRACT: The possibility of using bioenergy as a climate change mitigation measure has sparked a discussion of whether and how bioenergy production contributes to sustainable development. We undertook a systematic review of the scientific literature to illuminate this relationship and found a limited scientific basis for policymaking. Our results indicate that knowledge on the sustainable development impacts of bioenergy production is concentrated in a few well-studied countries, focuses on environmental and economic impacts, and mostly relates to dedicated agricultural biomass plantations. The scope and methodological approaches in studies differ widely and only a small share of the studies sufficiently reports on context and/or baseline conditions, which makes it difficult to get a general unders

SUBMITTER: Robledo-Abad C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5340281 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature