SABIOS - Sustainability assessment of bioenergy systems: a life cycle multi-criteria decision-support approach, including land use change
No project:016765
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01/06/2016 - 31/05/2019
Program funding:FCT
The budget of the project:199.836€
Funding incentive:169.860,60€
Bioenergy has been proposed as a solution to several pressing concerns such as energy security, climate change and rural development. However, accelerating growth in bioenergy demand has been accompanied by a growing concern about the environmental, economic and social impacts, such as deforestation, related food competition, and land conflicts.
Objectives:The methodology aims to innovate and advance the state of the art along three interrelated lines: The LCA will account for the indirect Land Use Changes (LUC) effects, occurring when pressure on agriculture due to the displacement of previous activity or by use of the biomass induces LUC on other lands. The assessment of bioenergy alternatives will be based on the complementary use of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and LCA, following the recent trends of using LCA as a means to obtain a subset of the criteria to be considered in MCDA. Uncertainty analysis will be embedded throughout all models to be developed, an important aspect since there is considerable uncertainty regarding the type, scale and timing of indirect LUC.
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