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Gallardo, Amarilis Lucia Casteli Figueiredo and Bond, Alan 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3809-5805
(2011)
Investigating the effectiveness of environmental assessment of land use change: A comparative study of the approaches taken to perennial biomass crop planting in Sao Paulo and England.
Biomass & Bioenergy, 35 (5).
pp. 2285-2297.
ISSN 1873-2909
Abstract
There is a move towards large-scale planting of perennial bioenergy crops in many countries to help reduce Green House Gas emissions, whilst still meeting energy demand. However, the implications of such wholesale land use change have yet to be fully understood which raises some concerns over the strategy. This paper identifies, through literature review, that significant social, economic and environmental impacts might be expected from land use change in two different parts of the world, São Paulo, Brazil, where sugarcane is the predominant perennial biomass crop, and England where miscanthus and short rotation coppice are likely to predominate. In order to examine the extent to which these impacts can be addressed in decision-making, the paper develops a framework for testing the effectiveness of environmental assessment practice in these two regions, and applies it to both. The conclusion is that, whilst tools which can address sustainability impacts in decision-making exist, the legal framework in England precludes their application for the majority of land use change, and in Brazil there is incomplete consideration of social and economic impacts at the strategic level.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_on_land |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Rachel Snow |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2011 16:03 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2022 00:52 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/27250 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.02.050 |
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