Downgrading recent stimates of land available for biofuel production

Recent estimates of additional land available for bioenergy production range from 320 to 1411 million ha. These estimates were generated from four scenarios regarding the types of land suitable for bioenergy production using coarse-resolution inputs of soil productivity, slope, climate, and land cov...

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Main Authors: Fritz, Steffen, See, Linda, van der Velde, Marijn, Nalepa, Rachel A., Perger, Christoph, Schill, Christian, McCallum, Ian, Schepaschenko, Dimitry, Kraxner, Florian, Cai, Ximing, Zhang, Xiao, Ortner, Simone, Hazarika, Rubul, Cipriani, Anna, Di Bella, Carlos Marcelo, Rabia, Ahmed H., Garcia, Alfredo Gabriel, Vakolyuk, Mar`yana, Singha, Kuleswar, Beget, Maria Eugenia, Erasmi, Stefan, Albrecht, Franziska, Shaw, Brian, Obersteiner, Michael
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author Fritz, Steffen
See, Linda
van der Velde, Marijn
Nalepa, Rachel A.
Perger, Christoph
Schill, Christian
McCallum, Ian
Schepaschenko, Dimitry
Kraxner, Florian
Cai, Ximing
Zhang, Xiao
Ortner, Simone
Hazarika, Rubul
Cipriani, Anna
Di Bella, Carlos Marcelo
Rabia, Ahmed H.
Garcia, Alfredo Gabriel
Vakolyuk, Mar`yana
Singha, Kuleswar
Beget, Maria Eugenia
Erasmi, Stefan
Albrecht, Franziska
Shaw, Brian
Obersteiner, Michael
author_browse Albrecht, Franziska
Beget, Maria Eugenia
Cai, Ximing
Cipriani, Anna
Di Bella, Carlos Marcelo
Erasmi, Stefan
Fritz, Steffen
Garcia, Alfredo Gabriel
Hazarika, Rubul
Kraxner, Florian
McCallum, Ian
Nalepa, Rachel A.
Obersteiner, Michael
Ortner, Simone
Perger, Christoph
Rabia, Ahmed H.
Schepaschenko, Dimitry
Schill, Christian
See, Linda
Shaw, Brian
Singha, Kuleswar
Vakolyuk, Mar`yana
Zhang, Xiao
van der Velde, Marijn
author_facet Fritz, Steffen
See, Linda
van der Velde, Marijn
Nalepa, Rachel A.
Perger, Christoph
Schill, Christian
McCallum, Ian
Schepaschenko, Dimitry
Kraxner, Florian
Cai, Ximing
Zhang, Xiao
Ortner, Simone
Hazarika, Rubul
Cipriani, Anna
Di Bella, Carlos Marcelo
Rabia, Ahmed H.
Garcia, Alfredo Gabriel
Vakolyuk, Mar`yana
Singha, Kuleswar
Beget, Maria Eugenia
Erasmi, Stefan
Albrecht, Franziska
Shaw, Brian
Obersteiner, Michael
author_sort Fritz, Steffen
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description Recent estimates of additional land available for bioenergy production range from 320 to 1411 million ha. These estimates were generated from four scenarios regarding the types of land suitable for bioenergy production using coarse-resolution inputs of soil productivity, slope, climate, and land cover. In this paper, these maps of land availability were assessed using high-resolution satellite imagery. Samples from these maps were selected and crowdsourcing of Google Earth images was used to determine the type of land cover and the degree of human impact. Based on this sample, a set of rules was formulated to downward adjust the original estimates for each of the four scenarios that were previously used to generate the maps of land availability for bioenergy production. The adjusted land availability estimates range from 56 to 1035 million ha depending upon the scenario and the ruleset used when the sample is corrected for bias. Large forest areas not intended for biofuel production purposes were present in all scenarios. However, these numbers should not be considered as definitive estimates but should be used to highlight the uncertainty in attempting to quantify land availability for biofuel production when using coarse-resolution inputs with implications for further policy development.
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spelling INTA14812018-01-09T18:24:54Z Downgrading recent stimates of land available for biofuel production Fritz, Steffen See, Linda van der Velde, Marijn Nalepa, Rachel A. Perger, Christoph Schill, Christian McCallum, Ian Schepaschenko, Dimitry Kraxner, Florian Cai, Ximing Zhang, Xiao Ortner, Simone Hazarika, Rubul Cipriani, Anna Di Bella, Carlos Marcelo Rabia, Ahmed H. Garcia, Alfredo Gabriel Vakolyuk, Mar`yana Singha, Kuleswar Beget, Maria Eugenia Erasmi, Stefan Albrecht, Franziska Shaw, Brian Obersteiner, Michael Generación de Energía Energy Generation Bioenergy Bioavailability Biofuels Land Degradation Biodisponibilidad Biocarburante Degradación de Tierras Biocombustibles Disponibilidad de la Tierra Recent estimates of additional land available for bioenergy production range from 320 to 1411 million ha. These estimates were generated from four scenarios regarding the types of land suitable for bioenergy production using coarse-resolution inputs of soil productivity, slope, climate, and land cover. In this paper, these maps of land availability were assessed using high-resolution satellite imagery. Samples from these maps were selected and crowdsourcing of Google Earth images was used to determine the type of land cover and the degree of human impact. Based on this sample, a set of rules was formulated to downward adjust the original estimates for each of the four scenarios that were previously used to generate the maps of land availability for bioenergy production. The adjusted land availability estimates range from 56 to 1035 million ha depending upon the scenario and the ruleset used when the sample is corrected for bias. Large forest areas not intended for biofuel production purposes were present in all scenarios. However, these numbers should not be considered as definitive estimates but should be used to highlight the uncertainty in attempting to quantify land availability for biofuel production when using coarse-resolution inputs with implications for further policy development. Fil: Fritz, Steffen. Ecosystem Services and Management Program. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis; Austria Fil: See, Linda. Ecosystem Services and Management Program. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis; Austria Fil: van der Velde, Marijn. Ecosystem Services and Management Program. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis; Austria Fil: Nalepa, Rachel A. Boston University; Estados Unidos Fil: Perger, Christoph. Ecosystem Services and Management Program. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis; Austria. University of Applied Sciences, Wiener; Austria Fil: Schill, Christian. University of Freiburg. Fernerkundung und Landschaftsinformationssysteme; Alemania Fil: McCallum, Ian. Ecosystem Services and Management Program. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis; Austria Fil: Schepaschenko, Dimitry. Ecosystem Services and Management Program. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis; Austria Fil: Kraxner, Florian. Ecosystem Services and Management Program. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis; Austria Fil: Cai, Ximing. University of Illinois at Urbana; Estados Unidos Fil: Zhang, Xiao. University of Illinois at Urbana; Estados Unidos Fil: Ortner, Simone. University of Applied Sciences; Austria Fil: Hazarika, Rubul. Gauhati University; India Fil: Cipriani, Anna. Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia. Dipartimento di Scienze delle Terra; Italia. Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; Estados Unidos Fil: Di Bella, Carlos Marcelo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Clima y Agua; Argentina Fil: Rabia, Ahmed H. Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II; Italia Fil: Garcia, Alfredo Gabriel. INTA; Argentina Fil: Vakolyuk, Mar`yana. Ecosystem Services and Management Program. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis; Austria Fil: Singha, Kuleswar. Gauhati University; India Fil: Beget, Maria Eugenia. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Clima y Agua; Argentina Fil: Erasmi, Stefan. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Alemania Fil: Albrecht, Franziska. Ecosystem Services and Management Program. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis; Austria Fil: Shaw, Brian. Ecosystem Services and Management Program. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis; Austria Fil: Obersteiner, Michael. Ecosystem Services and Management Program. International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis; Austria 2017-10-12T16:48:04Z 2017-10-12T16:48:04Z 2013-02 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/1481 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es303141h 0013-936X 1520-5851 (Online version) 10.1021/es303141h eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Environmental science & technology 47 (3) : 1688-1694. (2013)
spellingShingle Generación de Energía
Energy Generation
Bioenergy
Bioavailability
Biofuels
Land Degradation
Biodisponibilidad
Biocarburante
Degradación de Tierras
Biocombustibles
Disponibilidad de la Tierra
Fritz, Steffen
See, Linda
van der Velde, Marijn
Nalepa, Rachel A.
Perger, Christoph
Schill, Christian
McCallum, Ian
Schepaschenko, Dimitry
Kraxner, Florian
Cai, Ximing
Zhang, Xiao
Ortner, Simone
Hazarika, Rubul
Cipriani, Anna
Di Bella, Carlos Marcelo
Rabia, Ahmed H.
Garcia, Alfredo Gabriel
Vakolyuk, Mar`yana
Singha, Kuleswar
Beget, Maria Eugenia
Erasmi, Stefan
Albrecht, Franziska
Shaw, Brian
Obersteiner, Michael
Downgrading recent stimates of land available for biofuel production
title Downgrading recent stimates of land available for biofuel production
title_full Downgrading recent stimates of land available for biofuel production
title_fullStr Downgrading recent stimates of land available for biofuel production
title_full_unstemmed Downgrading recent stimates of land available for biofuel production
title_short Downgrading recent stimates of land available for biofuel production
title_sort downgrading recent stimates of land available for biofuel production
topic Generación de Energía
Energy Generation
Bioenergy
Bioavailability
Biofuels
Land Degradation
Biodisponibilidad
Biocarburante
Degradación de Tierras
Biocombustibles
Disponibilidad de la Tierra
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/1481
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es303141h
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