Political Economy of Biofuels

David Zilberman, Scott Kaplan, Gal Hochman and Deepak Rajagopal
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Scott Kaplan: Resource Economics at the University of California
Deepak Rajagopal: University of California Los-Angeles

Chapter Chapter 11 in The Impacts of Biofuels on the Economy, Environment, and Poverty, 2014, pp 131-144 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract While timber and other biomass have been the main sources of fuel for millennia, there has been an increasing emphasis on growing crops and converting feedstock to liquid fuels (Rajagopal et al. 2009) or for use in power plants. These new fuels were induced by government policies and often require a diversion of resources from agricultural to energy production. Analyzing the performance of biofuels and biofuel policies requires a political economic lens—this chapter will provide such a framework to assess biofuels.

Keywords: Clean Development Mechanism; Biofuel Production; Food Price; Micro Model; Corn Ethanol (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0518-8_11

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