Developing a socio-economic framework for the assessment of rural biorefinery projects

Miravo Rakotovao, Julie Gobert () and Sabrina Dermine-Brullot ()
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Miravo Rakotovao: CREIDD - Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Interdisciplinaires sur le Développement Durable - ICD - Institut Charles Delaunay - UTT - Université de Technologie de Troyes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Julie Gobert: LEESU - Laboratoire Eau Environnement et Systèmes Urbains - AgroParisTech - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12, CREIDD - Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Interdisciplinaires sur le Développement Durable - ICD - Institut Charles Delaunay - UTT - Université de Technologie de Troyes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Sabrina Dermine-Brullot: CREIDD - Centre de Recherches et d'Etudes Interdisciplinaires sur le Développement Durable - ICD - Institut Charles Delaunay - UTT - Université de Technologie de Troyes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: A rural biorefinery is a facility set up in a territory which transforms local biomass into a wide range of products and energy. Contrary to the port biorefineries where raw materials are mainly imported, their sourcing is carried out on a more restricted area or even on a local area. Indeed, they are characterized by the importance of their integration process as they maintain more or less close links with the territory, especially with the farming community. In addition to being a source of income for farmers, these biorefineries create new opportunities for non-farm sectors. Recently, research has been conducted to assess biorefinery sustainability. However, the balance between the three pillars of sustainable development is not established as studies focus more on environmental assessments to the detriment of socioeconomic dimensions. In addition, socioeconomic assessments of rural agro-industrial projects are often limited to economic indices, which are not sufficient to evaluate the fallout on the territory. Then, the purpose of this paper is to propose a socioeconomic evaluation grid to measure the territorial embeddedness of rural biorefineries.

Keywords: Assessment; Socio-economic impact; Rural biorefinery; territorial embeddedness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in 26th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark

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