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Review of the impacts on nonrenewable resources of land-use changes induced by non-food biomass production

Dumas P.. 2018. In : Réchauchère Olivier (ed.), Bispo Antonio (ed.), Gabrielle Benoît (ed.), Makowski David (ed.). Sustainable agriculture reviews 30: Environmental impact of land use change in agricultural systems. Cham : Springer, p. 213-226. (Sustanaible Agriculture Reviews, 30).

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96289-4_9

Research addressing non-food biomass production from the perspective of land-use change and environmental impacts has expanded considerably since 2008. An exhaustive literature review followed by the identification within the resulting corpus of all references seelcing to quantify the consumption of nonrenewable resources yielded 29 articles, which were then examined in detail. Our goal was to describe, as precisely as possible, the methods and results of published research addressing land use change as it relates to the consumption of nonrenewable resources. We found that these articles were in fact more focused on the assessment of other environmental impacts, primarily greenhouse gas impacts, with fossil-fuel use appearing as a collateral result. All the articles employed a life cycle analysis approach; all considered the question of fossil-fuel consumption; and all concluded that a reduction in fossil fuel use was achieved through the substitution of biomass energy. According to the findings of this sub-corpus, biofuels produced from lignocellulosic biomass appear to be most effective in terms of reducing environmental impacts, but few direct comparisons with first-generation biofuels have been made. In general, differences in methodologies and in the assumptions adopted for different studies, particularly with respect to land-use change parameters, make comparisons among the selected studies difficult.

Mots-clés : utilisation des terres; impact sur l'environnement; énergie; biomasse; bioénergie

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