Integrating place-specific livelihood and equity outcomes into global assessments of bioenergy deployment
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Integrated assessment models suggest that the large-scale deployment of bioenergy could contribute to ambitious climate change mitigation efforts. However, such a shift would intensify the global competition for land, with possible consequences for 1.5 billion smallholder livelihoods that these models do not consider. Maintaining and enhancing robust livelihoods upon bioenergy deployment is an equally important sustainability goal that warrants greater attention. The social implications of biofuel production are complex, varied and place-specific, difficult to model, operationalize and quantify. However, a rapidly developing body of social science literature is advancing the understanding of these interactions. In this letter we link human geography research on the interaction between biofuel crops and livelihoods in developing countries to integrated assessments on biofuels. We review case-study research focused on first-generation biofuel crops to demonstrate that food, income, land and other assets such as health are key livelihood dimensions that can be impacted by such crops and we highlight how place-specific and global dynamics influence both aggregate and distributional outcomes across these livelihood dimensions. We argue that place-specific production models and land tenure regimes mediate livelihood outcomes, which are also in turn affected by global and regional markets and their resulting equilibrium dynamics. The place-specific perspective suggests that distributional consequences are a crucial complement to aggregate outcomes; this has not been given enough weight in comprehensive assessments to date. By narrowing the gap between place-specific case studies and global models, our discussion offers a route towards integrating livelihood and equity considerations into scenarios of future bioenergy deployment, thus contributing to a key challenge in sustainability sciences.
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Large-scale bioenergy production could alter the structure of global agricultural markets in a way that is potentially unfavorable to small-scale food producers.
“Large-scale bioenergy producƟon could alter the structure of global agricultural markets in a way that is, potenƟally, unfavorable to small-scale food producers.”
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Large-scale bioenergy production could lead to the creation of agricultural jobs, as well as higher farm wages and more diversified income streams for farmers.
“Large-scale bioenergy producƟon could lead to the creaƟon of agricultural jobs, as well higher farm wages and more diversified income streams for farmers.”
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- Authors
- Creutzig, F., Corbera, E., Bolwig, S., & Hunsberger, C.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
- Technical University of Denmark (DK)
- Corresponding author
- Creutzig, Felix
- Venue
- Environmental Research Letters
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2013-09-01
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 035047
- ISSN
- 1748-9326 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2052173379
- Cited by
- 55
- References
- 87
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 12.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Environmental Research Letters (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePub (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Publication Database PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)) (submittedVersion)
- Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Bioenergy crop production and management
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Keywords
- biofuels, smallholder livelihoods, land use competition, land tenure, distributional equity, integrated assessment models, food security, income, sustainability assessment, climate change mitigation
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