Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy: Volume II

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Bioenergy Economics and Policy in US and Brazil: Effects on Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

   • Madhu Khanna, David Zilberman

   Pages 1-11

3. Market and Policy Incentives for Biofuel Production in the US and Brazil

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. US Biofuel Policies and Markets

      • Gal Hochman, Michael Traux, David Zilberman

      Pages 15-38

   3. The Sugarcane Industry and the Use of Fuel Ethanol in Brazil: History, Challenges, and Opportunities

      • Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, Luciano Rodrigues, Scott Kaplan

      Pages 39-63

   4. Incentives and Barriers for Liquid Biofuels in Brazil

      • Luiz Augusto Horta Nogueira, Rafael Silva Capaz

      Pages 65-88

   5. Prospects for Biofuel Production in Brazil: Role of Market and Policy Uncertainties

      • Maria Paula Vieira Cicogna, Madhu Khanna, David Zilberman

      Pages 89-117

4. Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Effects of Biofuel Production in the US and Brazil

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Biofuel Life-Cycle Analysis

      • Jennifer B. Dunn, Jeongwoo Han, Joaquim Seabra, Michael Wang

      Pages 121-161

   3. Effect of Biofuel on Agricultural Supply and Land Use

      • David Zilberman, Deepak Rajagopal, Scott Kaplan

      Pages 163-182

   4. Global Land Use Impacts of U.S. Ethanol: Revised Analysis Using GDyn-BIO Framework

      • Alla A. Golub, Thomas W. Hertel, Steven K. Rose

      Pages 183-212

   5. Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Implications of Biofuels: Role of Technology and Policy

      • Xiaoguang Chen, Madhu Khanna

      Pages 213-237

   6. Modeling Bioenergy, Land Use, and GHG Mitigation with FASOMGHG: Implications of Storage Costs and Carbon Policy

      • Robert H. Beach, Yuquan W. Zhang, Bruce A. McCarl

      Pages 239-271

   7. Empirical Findings from Agricultural Expansion and Land Use Change in Brazil

      • Leila Harfuch, Luciane Chiodi Bachion, Marcelo Melo Ramalho Moreira, André Meloni Nassar, Miguel Carriquiry

      Pages 273-302

   8. Land Use Change, Ethanol Production Expansion and Food Security in Brazil

      • Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho, Mark Horridge

      Pages 303-320

   9. Lessons from the ILUC Phenomenon

      • Michael O’Hare, Richard J. Plevin

      Pages 321-344

5. Feedstocks for Cellulosic Biofuels: Production Risks and Risk Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 345-345

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   2. Innovation in Agriculture: Incentives for Adoption and Supply Chain Development for Energy Crops

      • Madhu Khanna, David Zilberman, Ruiqing Miao

      Pages 347-372

   3. Effects of Liquidity Constraints, Risk and Related Time Effects on the Adoption of Perennial Energy Crops

      • Géraldine Bocquého

      Pages 373-399

   4. Contracting in the Biofuel Sector

      • Xiaoxue Du, Madhu Khanna, Liang Lu, Xi Yang, David Zilberman

      Pages 401-425

In its second volume, this book aims to link the academic research with development in the real world and provide a historical and institutional background that can enrich more formal research. The first section will include an assessment of the evolution and the state of the nascent second-generation biofuel as well as a perspective on the evolution of corn ethanol and sugarcane ethanol in Brazil. It will also include a historical and institutional background on the biofuel industry in Brazil that has global lessons, and later, provide a technical overview of major analytical tools used to assess the economic, land use and greenhouse gas implications of biofuel policies at a regional and global level. Additionally, the book analyzes the various drivers for land use change both at a micro-economic level and at a macro-economic level. It presents studies that apply regional and global economic models to examine the effects of biofuel policies in the US, EU and Brazil on regional and global land use, on food and fuel prices and greenhouse gas emissions. These papers illustrate the use of partial and general equilibrium modeling approaches to simulate the effects of various biofuel policies, and includes studies showing the effects of risk aversion, time preferences and liquidity constraints on farmers decision to grow energy crops for biofuel production. By presenting the tools of lifecycle analysis for assessing the direct greenhouse gas intensity of biofuels, this handbook investigates the types of indirect or market mediated effects that can offset or strengthen these direct effects.  It will include tools to assess the direct and indirect effects of biofuel production on greenhouse gas emissions in the US and Brazil, and ultimately provide a comprehensive background to understand the state of biofuel in the present and how to analyze their implication.

• Bioeconomy
• Bioenergy
• Energy crops
• Ethanol
• Greenhouse Gas
• Land use

• Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA

  Madhu Khanna

• Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

  David Zilberman

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