Biofuels and Sustainability: Holistic Perspectives for Policy-Making

ISBN-13: 9784431548942 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 265 str.

Kazuhiko Takeuchi; Hideaki Shiroyama; Osamu Saito

Opis

Biofuels are expected to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, vitalizing economies in the agricultural communities and alleviating poverty. However, in spite of its anticipated benefits, international organizations such as the FAO, OECD and UN are expressing their concerns that biofuel promotion may lead to deforestation, water pollution and water shortage in their reports. The impacts of biofuel use are extensive, cross-sectoral and complex and therefore comprehensive analyses and assessments are required to achieve sustainable societies. With a view to conducting comprehensive analysis, this book attempts to assess biofuel use strategies from an interdisciplinary perspective using Sustainability Science. As this book proposes to study biofuels from an interdisciplinary perspective (social science-natural science), the strategies and policy options proposed by this study would have significant impacts on economy and society. In addition, Sustainability Science has been still developing. Applying the concept and methodology from the Sustainability Science view in this book may contribute to implement it to the society to establish sustainable society. The United States and European Union prepared their own roadmaps to promote biofuels. However, these roadmaps miss cross-sectoral perspectives and therefore the degradation of environmental sustainability is concerned. The interdisciplinary approach applied in this research will be an appropriate response to a global need for urgent actions on such current problems.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Spis treści

Preface.-Introduction.-Part 1: Biofuels and Sustainability Conceptual Framework.- Chapter 1. Sustainability Science Perspective for Biofuels [Takeuchi, Matsuda].- Chapter 2. Stakeholder perspectives and Multilevel Governance [Shiroyama, Matsuura].- Chapter 3. Applying stakeholder perspectives to sustainable biofuel strategy: a summary of our analyses [Shiroyama, Matsuura].-Part 2: Impacts on land use and ecosystem services.- Chapter 4. Global Economic and Environmental Impacts - Economic Impacts of biofuels and related policy [Suzuki and Takahashi].- Chapter 5. Global Economic and Environmental Impacts - Environmental impacts of biofuel production on the GHG emission reduction [Hanaki].- Chapter 6. Impacts at the National & Regional Scales - Land use change impacts [Hayashi].- Chapter 7. Impacts at the National & Regional Scales - Socioeconomic impacts in East Asia [Elder, Kozima, Sano and Hayashi].- Chapter 8. Social, Economic and Political Impacts - Socio-Political impacts to the roles of stakeholders [Shiroyama and Matsuura ].- Chapter 9. Social, Economic and Political Impacts - Impacts on ecosystem services [Alexandros and Stromberg].- Part 3: Sustainable biofuels strategy options.- Chapter 10. Roadmap for building sustainable strategy options - Developing sustainable strategy options [Shiroyama and Matsuura].- Chapter 11. Roadmap for building sustainable strategy options - Application of Ontology for developing strategy options [Kozaki, Mizoguchi and Saito].- Chapter 12. Key strategies for policy makers - Global Strategies options [Arai, Matsuda and Suzuki].- Chapter 13. Key strategies for policy makers - Regional Strategy options for East Asia [Elder, Kozima, Sano and Hayashi].- Chapter 14. Key strategies for policy makers - National strategy options for Japan [Shiroyama, Matsuura and Saito].

O autorze

Kazuhiko Takeuchi
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Kanagawa, Japan

Hideaki Shiroyama
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Saito
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan

Masahiro Matsuura
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Blurb

This open access book presents a comprehensive analysis of biofuel use strategies from an interdisciplinary perspective using sustainability science. This interdisciplinary perspective (social science-natural science) means that the strategies and policy options proposed will have significant impacts on the economy and society alike. Biofuels are expected to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, revitalizing economies in agricultural communities and alleviating poverty. However, despite these anticipated benefits, international organizations such as the FAO, OECD and UN have published reports expressing concerns that biofuel promotion may lead to deforestation, water pollution and water shortages. The impacts of biofuel use are extensive, cross-sectoral and complex, and as such, comprehensive analyses are required in order to assess the extent to which biofuels can contribute to sustainable societies.

Applying interdisciplinary sustainability science concepts and methodologies, the book helps to enhance the establishment of a sustainable society as well as the development of appropriate responses to a global need for urgent action on current issues related to biofuels.