Lessons from first generation biofuels and implications for the sustainability appraisal of second generation biofuels
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"Lessons from first generation biofu..." refers background in this paper
...To avoid land conflicts with food crops, marginal and degraded land could in theory be used for dedicated energy crops to be converted into 2G biofuels, however maintaining high yields over time is dependent upon continuous access to adequate water resources (Sims et al., 2010)....
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...(Sims et al., 2010) or land formerly under the EU...
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...Thus Stirling (2003) argues for the need to examine the assumptions made and boundaries drawn in quantitative environmental assessments....
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...The processing of co-products such as wheat straw also poses significant sustainability challenges in that considerable energy is required to overcome the recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass through pre-treatment for enzymatic saccharification (Zhu and Pan, 2009)....
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