Abstract
Biomass energy has an advantage among renewable energy technologies because it is storable potential energy. A variety of biomass energy technologies have been subjects of research on their environmental burdens. Because these technologies are strongly related to agricultural production, their evaluation has faced the issue of uncertainty that is inherent in agriculture. Methodologies in assessing the environmental impact of biomass energy technologies, including how that uncertainty should be treated in the assessment, are introduced in this chapter. This is followed by some case studies, including those of the life cycle assessment of energy crop cultivation and evaluation of the effect of economic promotion policies on greenhouse gas reduction.
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Uchida, S. (2019). Environmental Assessment of Biomass Energy Crops. In: Nakayama, K., Miyata, Y. (eds) Theoretical and Empirical Analysis in Environmental Economics. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 34. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2363-8_6
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