The expansion of short rotation forestry: characterization of determinants with an agent-based land use model
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dc.contributor.author | Schulze, Jule | |
dc.contributor.author | Gawel, Erik | |
dc.contributor.author | Nolzen, Henning | |
dc.contributor.author | Weise, Hanna | |
dc.contributor.author | Frank, Karin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-23T16:21:36Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-23T16:21:36Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 17571693 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://osnascholar.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/unios/13943 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Wood is a limited resource which is exposed to a continuously growing global demand not least because of a politically fostered bioenergy use. One approach to master the challenge to sustainably meet this increasing wood demand is short rotation forestry (SRF). However, SRF is only gradually evolving and it is not fully understood which determinants hamper its expansion. This study provides theoretical insights into economic and environmental determinants of an SRF expansion and their interplay. This assessment requires the incorporation of farmers' decision-making based on an explicit investment appraisal. Therefore, we use an agent-based model to depict the decision-making of profit-maximizing farmers facing the choice between SRF, the cultivation of conventional annual agricultural crops and abstaining from cultivation (fallow land). The land use decisions are influenced by general economic determinants, such as market prices for wood and annual crops, and by site-dependent determinants, such as the environmental site quality. We found that the willingness to pay for SRF-based products and for annual crops most strongly influences the coverage of SRF in the landscape. SRF will in most cases be established on sites with low productivity. However, a decrease in the willingness to pay for annual crops will lead to a reallocation of SRF plantations to sites with higher productivity. Furthermore, our model results indicate that the impact of the distance to processing plants on farmers' decisions strongly depends on general economic determinants and the given spatial structure of the underlying natural landscape. Analysing the relative importance of different determinants of an SRF expansion, this study gives insights into the approach of using SRF to sustainably meet the growing wood demand. Moreover, these insights are taken as a starting point for the design of effective government interventions to promote SRF. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Research Programme `Terrestrial Environmental Programme' (Integrated Project `Land use aspects of transforming the energy system') of the Helmholtz Association; German Research Foundation DFGGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [TI 824/2-1]; graduate school `Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Gradate School for Environmental Research (HIGRADE)' of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; This research was funded by the Research Programme `Terrestrial Environmental Programme' (Integrated Project `Land use aspects of transforming the energy system') of the Helmholtz Association. JS additionally acknowledges support from the graduate school `Helmholtz Interdisciplinary Gradate School for Environmental Research (HIGRADE)' of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ. HW acknowledges funding through the German Research Foundation DFG project TI 824/2-1 Ecosystem resilience towards climate change - the role of interacting buffer mechanisms in Mediterranean-type ecosystems. The authors would like to thank Alexandra Purkus and two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | WILEY | |
dc.relation.ispartof | GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY BIOENERGY | |
dc.subject | agent-based model | |
dc.subject | Agriculture | |
dc.subject | Agronomy | |
dc.subject | bioeconomy | |
dc.subject | BIOENERGY | |
dc.subject | Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology | |
dc.subject | COPPICE | |
dc.subject | COST | |
dc.subject | CULTIVATION | |
dc.subject | ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject | ECOSYSTEM SERVICES | |
dc.subject | Energy & Fuels | |
dc.subject | energy crops | |
dc.subject | farmer | |
dc.subject | human decision-making | |
dc.subject | IMPACTS | |
dc.subject | landscape generators | |
dc.subject | PERENNIAL ENERGY CROPS | |
dc.subject | SWITCHGRASS | |
dc.subject | woody biomass | |
dc.title | The expansion of short rotation forestry: characterization of determinants with an agent-based land use model | |
dc.type | journal article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/gcbb.12400 | |
dc.identifier.isi | ISI:000402743500004 | |
dc.description.volume | 9 | |
dc.description.issue | 6 | |
dc.description.startpage | 1042 | |
dc.description.endpage | 1056 | |
dc.contributor.orcid | 0000-0002-2769-0692 | |
dc.contributor.orcid | 0000-0003-3159-6735 | |
dc.contributor.orcid | 0000-0002-8171-8270 | |
dc.contributor.researcherid | D-6490-2015 | |
dc.contributor.researcherid | P-1701-2016 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 17571707 | |
dc.publisher.place | 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA | |
dcterms.isPartOf.abbreviation | GCB Bioenergy | |
dcterms.oaStatus | gold, Green Published | |
crisitem.author.dept | Institut für Umweltsystemforschung | - |
crisitem.author.deptid | researchcenter5 | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0002-2769-0692 | - |
crisitem.author.parentorg | Universität Osnabrück | - |
crisitem.author.netid | FrKa908 | - |
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