Bioenergy development : issues and impacts for poverty and natural resource management / Elizabeth Cushion, Adrian Whiteman, and Gerhard Dieterle.

By:

Cushion, Elizabeth

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Agriculture and rural development series | World Bank e-LibraryPublisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2010Description: xviii, 249 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0821376292
0821381296 (electronic)
9780821376294
9780821381298 (electronic)

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Additional physical formats: Print Version:DDC classification:

333.95/39 22

LOC classification:

HD9502.5.B542 C87 2010

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Contents:

Overview. Main types of bioenergy ; This report ; Total bioenergy supply and contribution to TPES ; Outlook for bioenergy consumption ; Forces affecting bioenergy development ; Concerns about bioenergy development ; Policies, targets, and instruments -- Solid biomass. Long-term trend and outlook for primary solid biomass ; Bioenergy production from solid biomass ; Traditional uses of solid biomass for energy ; Modern and industrial uses of solid biomamss for energy ; Energy systems based on biomass pellets ; Notes -- Liquid biofuels. Bioethanol for fuel ; Biodiesel for fuel ; Economic viability of liquid biofuel production ; Social and environmental impacts -- Impacts and issues at the country and regional levels. Africa ; East Asia and Pacific ; Europe and Central Asia ; Latin America and the Caribbean ; Middle East and North Africa ; South Asia ; Notes.

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