The availability of land for perennial energy crops in Great Britain

Lovett, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0554-9273, Sünnenberg, Gilla and Dockerty, Trudie (2014) The availability of land for perennial energy crops in Great Britain. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 6 (2). pp. 99-107. ISSN 1757-1693

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Abstract

This paper defines the potentially available land for perennial energy crops across Great Britain as the first component of a broader appraisal undertaken by the ‘Spatial Modelling of Bioenergy in Great Britain to 2050’ project. Combining data on seven primary constraints in a GIS reduced the available area to just over 9 M ha (40% of GB). Adding other restrictions based on land cover naturalness scores to represent landscape considerations resulted in a final area of 8.5 M ha (37% of GB). This distribution was compared with the locations of Miscanthus and SRC willow established under the English Energy Crop Scheme during 2001–2011 and it was found that 83% of the planting fell within the defined available land. Such a correspondence provides confidence that the factors considered in the analysis were broadly consistent with previous planting decisions.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2013 The Authors. Global Change Biology Bioenergy Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	geographical information systems,land availability,land use,landscape sensitivity,perennial energy crops,planting constraints,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_on_land
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Business and Local Government Data Research Centre (former - to 2023) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	30 May 2014 20:46
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2024 11:12
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/48133
DOI:	10.1111/gcbb.12147

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