Landowners’ willingness to promote bioenergy production on wasteland ? future impact on land use of cutaway peatlands |
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| Institution: | 1. Tampere University of Technology, Department of Chemistry and Bioengineering, PO Box 527, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland;2. University of Jyväskylä, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, P.O. Box 35, FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland;3. Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 412 FI-60101 Seinäjoki, Finland;1. University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Toowoomba, Queensland, 4350, Australia;2. Vietnamese Academy of Forest Science (VAFS), Vietnam;3. Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture & Rural Development (IPSARD), Vietnam;1. Departamento de Tecnología de la Edificación, Escuela Técnica Superior de Edificación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain;2. Directora Técnica SERVAC (Servicios Ambientales y Culturales), Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain;1. Forest Economics and Policy, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, 36849-5418, United States;2. BETA - UMR 7522 CNRS Université de Strasbourg, 61, avenue de la Forêt Noire, 67085 Strasbourg Cedex, France;3. INRA, UMR 356 Economie Forestière - AgroParisTech, Laboratoire d’Economie Forestière, Nancy, France;4. Pinchot Institute for Conservation, Washington, DC, United States;1. The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, United Kingdom;2. Cranfield University,College Road, Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0AL, United Kingdom;1. State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China;2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Landowners are the key players in bioenergy production on wasteland; such as cutaway peatlands. In this study, the landowner’s interest to use cutaway peatlands for bioenergy production was investigated using a survey and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) methods in an area in South Ostrobothnia, Finland. The focus was to identify which different bioenergy production chains are preferred by the respondents: combustion, gasification or biogas production from agriculture, energy-willow short-rotation forestry or forestry based energy crops. Also, the influence of personal environmental values on the selection was measured and the future impacts and barriers for the land use were assessed.Afforestation was the most popular after-use method among the landowners. The next most favorable method was energy crop cultivation but it was highly dependent on economic profitability and subsidies. Currently, approximately 8.2% or 500 ha of the total peat extraction area could be used for bioenergy production in the region by 2035. Based on the survey, forest based biomass is the best option if bioenergy is to be produced. The next choice was agro biomass and the least favored plant was willow. This study suggests that the biggest cutaway peatlands will be converted to forest energy in the future. Suggestive results were that the owners with high environmental values are especially interested in agro biomass growing and the landowner having a distant home place does not have a negative influence on bioenergy production. Altogether, land use and biomass production of cutaway peatlands is connected with the demands of the Finnish bio-economy. |
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| Keywords: | Biogas Gasification Combustion GIS Energy crop Willow |
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