Bioenergy development
Subtitle: issues and impacts for poverty and natural resource management
By: Elizabeth Cushion, Adrian Whiteman, and Gerhard Dieterle
Contributors: Whiteman, Adrian; Dieterle, Gerhard
Series: Agriculture and rural development; Agriculture and rural development series
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780821376294; 9780821381298
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview. Main types of bioenergy ; This report ; Total bioenergy supply and contribution to TPES ; Outlook for bioenergy consumption ; Forces affecting bioenergy development ; Concerns about bioenergy development ; Policies, targets, and instruments; title: Solid biomass. Long-term trend and outlook for primary solid biomass ; Bioenergy production from solid biomass ; Traditional uses of solid biomass for energy ; Modern and industrial uses of solid biomamss for energy ; Energy systems based on biomass pellets ; Notes; title: Liquid biofuels. Bioethanol for fuel ; Biodiesel for fuel ; Economic viability of liquid biofuel production ; Social and environmental impacts; title: Impacts and issues at the country and regional levels. Africa ; East Asia and Pacific ; Europe and Central Asia ; Latin America and the Caribbean ; Middle East and North Africa ; South Asia ; Notes.