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1. Introduction to Sustainability of Biofuels Toward Sustainable Development

Authors : Keat Teong Lee, Cynthia Ofori-Boateng

Published in: Sustainability of Biofuel Production from Oil Palm Biomass

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Abstract

Efficient biofuels production that meets the needs of the local, regional, national, and global population are affected by economic, environmental, socio-political, and thermodynamic factors, which have to be managed right in order to achieve sustainable development for the biofuel industry. Biofuels production has various impacts on certain activities such as food production, water quality, biodiversity, etc. Thus, the choice of raw materials, plantation and harvesting technologies, production process designs, product delivery methods, etc., largely determine their sustainability. This chapter therefore elaborates on key issues pertaining to sustainability and sustainable development for the biofuel industry. Some initiatives, which spell out principles and criteria for sustainable biofuels production, are also discussed in this chapter.

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Footnotes
1
The evolution of advanced technology has brought about the use of environmentally dangerous chemicals like Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) for the manufacturing certain products etc.
 
2
Apart from the commonly known criteria for sustainability discussed in this chapter, this book adds thermodynamic sustainability to these criteria and elaborates further in Chap.​ 7 of this book.
 
3
RSPO members and affiliates include oil palm producers, processors and traders, retailers, banks and investors, environmental and social non-governmental organizations (NGOs) etc.
 
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Metadata
Title
Introduction to Sustainability of Biofuels Toward Sustainable Development
Authors
Keat Teong Lee
Cynthia Ofori-Boateng
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
Sustainability of Biofuel Production from Oil Palm Biomass

Print ISBN: 978-981-4451-69-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-4451-70-3

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-70-3_1