Alternative title
Beneficial land use change: Strategic expansion of new biomass plantations can reduce environmental impacts from EU agriculture
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Oskar Englund
- Mid Sweden University, Dept. of Ecotechnology and sustainable building engineering
Description
Society faces the double challenge of increasing biomass production to meet the future demands for food,
materials and bioenergy, while addressing negative impacts of current (and future) land use. In the discourse,
land use change (LUC) has often been considered as negative, referring to impacts of deforestation and expansion of biomass plantations. However, strategic establishment of suitable perennial production systems in agricultural landscapes can mitigate environmental impacts of current crop production, while providing biomass for the bioeconomy.
Here, we explore the potential for such “beneficial LUC” in EU28. First, we map and quantify the
degree of accumulated soil organic carbon losses, soil loss by wind and water erosion, nitrogen emissions to
water, and recurring floods, in ∼81.000 individual landscapes in EU28. We then estimate the effectiveness in
mitigating these impacts through establishment of perennial plants, in each landscape.
The results indicate that there is a substantial potential for effective impact mitigation. Depending on criteria selection, 10–46% of the land
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English
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Time period(s) investigated
2000–2018
Englund, O., Börjesson, P., Berndes, G., Scarlat, N., Dallemand, J.-F., Grizzetti, B., Dimitriou, I., Mola-Yudego, B., & Fahl, F. (2020). Beneficial land use change: Strategic expansion of new biomass plantations can reduce environmental impacts from EU agriculture. Global Environmental Change, 60, Article 101990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101990
URN:
urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-38179
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101990
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Oskar Englund
- Mid Sweden University, Dept. of Ecotechnology and sustainable building engineering
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