Are plants the new oil? Responsible innovation, biorefining and multipurpose agriculture

O.K. Shortall, Sujatha Raman and Kate Millar

Energy Policy, 2015, vol. 86, issue C, 360-368

Abstract: Bioenergy is seen as one of the options for industrialised countries to wean themselves off fossil fuels. However bioenergy, transport biofuels in particular, has faced considerable environmental and social controversies. Biorefining has been proposed in the UK and Denmark to address these concerns by using biomass efficiently for multiple purposes (food, feed, fuel, chemicals). Drawing from frameworks on responsible innovation, this paper opens up the implicit assumptions within the biorefinery concept about how biomass should be produced.

Keywords: Biorefinery; Bioeconomy; Multipurpose biomass; Bioenergy; Agricultural paradigms; Responsible innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.07.011

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