Renewable resources and land use (NaRoLa) - Integration of bioenergy into a sustainable energy strategy

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Project period: 01.03.2007 - 28.02.2010

Growing importance is being attached to biomass in connection with energy security and climate protection. However, conflicts are already emerging in association with the growing amount of land being dedicated to cultivating biomass and the macroeconomic effects of such land use.

This project will analyse the contribution that biomass makes to ensuring a sustainable energy supply and assess it from an economic, ecological and social standpoint. An integrated modelling system will be developed that is able to depict the competition between biomass and food production over land use and additionally take into account macroeconomic and international feedback effects.

Project partners:

Institute for the World Economy, Professor Dr Klepper
Federal Agricultural Research Centre, Dr Görmann
University of Bonn, Professor Dr Holm-Müller

Further information is available on the project website .

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