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Title Sugarcane bioenergy for sustainable development : expanding production in Latin America and Africa / edited by Luis A.B. Cortez, Manoel Regis L.V. Leal and Luiz A. Horta Nogueira
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge studies in bioenergy
Routledge studies in business ethics.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of authors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Foreword; Introduction: Production of sugarcane bioenergy in Latin America and Africa; PART I: Bioenergy overview: the context; 1 The future of fuel ethanol; 2 Bioenergy in the world: Present status and future; 3 Is there really a food versus fuel dilemma?; 4 Integrating pasture intensification and bioenergy crop expansion; 5 The role of the sugarcane bioeconomy in supporting energy access and rural development
6 Is the sugarcane capital goods sector prepared to respond to large-scale bioenergy supply in developing countries?7 Energy medium- and long-term perspectives: Are we moving toward an "all-electric model"?; 8 Comparative assessment of non-ethanol biofuel production from sugarcane lignocelluloses in Africa, including synfuels, butanol and jet fuels; 9 2G 2.0; 10 Medium- and long-term prospects for bioenergy trade; PART II: Why bioenergy?; 11 Why promote sugarcane bioenergy production and use in Latin America, the Caribbean and Southern Africa?
12 The potential of bioenergy from sugarcane in Latin America, the Caribbean and Southern Africa13 Reconciling food security, environmental preservation and biofuel production: Lessons from Brazil; 14 Energy security and energy poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa; 15 Sustainable bioenergy production in Mozambique as a vector for economic development; 16 Integrated analysis of bioenergy systems: the path from initial prospects to feasibility and acceptability; PART III: Availability of land and sugarcane potential production
17 Initial considerations to estimate sugarcane potential in Mozambique and Colombia18 Sustainability aspects: Restrictions and potential production; 19 Case study: Potential of sugarcane production for Mozambique; 20 Case study: Potential of sugarcane production for Colombia; 21 Final comments; PART IV: Impacts and feasibility of sugarcane production; 22 Sugarcane production model and sustainability indicators; 23 Sugarcane and energy poverty alleviation; 24 Why modern bioenergy and not traditional production and use can benefit developing countries?
25 Sugarcane bioenergy production systems: technical, socioeconomic and environmental assessment26 Sustainability of scale in sugarcane bioenergy production; 27 Vinasse, a new effluent from sugarcane ethanol production; PART V: Assessing the LACAf Project findings; 28 Final remarks on production model alternatives; 29 Alcohol and LACAf project in Colombia; 30 Sugarcane ethanol in Guatemala; 31 Methodology of assessment and mitigation of risks facing bioenergy investments in sub-Saharan Africa; 32 Can sugarcane bring about a bioenergy transformation in sub-Saharan Africa?
Notes Includes case reports from results from the LACAF Project in which the Colombian and Mozambican cases are presented. Includes work from the State University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Brazil
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sugarcane industry -- Latin America
Sugarcane industry -- Africa
Biomass energy -- Economic aspects
Sustainable development.
sustainable development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Biomass energy -- Economic aspects
Sugarcane industry
Sustainable development
Africa
Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Cortez, Luís Augusto Barbosa, editor.
Leal, Manoel Regis L. V. (Manoel Regis Lima Verde), editor.
Nogueira, Luiz Augusto Horta, editor.
LACAf Project, author.
Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
ISBN 9780429457920
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