Sammanfattning

The global area of planted biofuel crops has been increasing rapidly, but the environmental and social consequences of widespread adoption of biofuel production remain largely unexplored. How do we measure efficiency and net energy of a complex system, such as the interaction between agriculture, human society and technology? This paper provides background and identifies assumptions in its overview of competing and overlapping methods. We emphasize that biofuels, as well as all other resources with their associated processes, should be analyzed as embedded in complex systems. The reason why society looks at biofuels favorably is because the methodological approaches used in the present scientific literature are narrow and far from holistic. What is excluded from the analysis has crucial implications on what is regarded as sustainable.

Publicerad i

European Physical Journal Plus
2017, Volym: 132, nummer: 2, artikelnummer: 66
Utgivare: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG

SLU författare

• Johansson, Sheshti

  • Institutionen för energi och teknik, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Rydberg, Torbjörn

  • Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen

SDG7 Hållbar energi för alla


UKÄ forskningsämne

Bioenergi


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2017-11333-0

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/94147