7: Biomass Sustainability and Land Use

Wednesday, April 21, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Salon A-E (Hilton Clearwater Beach)
Chair:
Keith L. Kline
Co-chair:
Joel Velasco
8:00 AM
Sustainable land use in biofuel-producing landscapes: Tools, policies and methodologies
Christine Dragisic1, Patricia Baiao2, Lucio Bede2, John Buchanan3, Celia Harvey3, Miroslav Honzak3, Tim Killeen3, Luiz Paulo Pinto2, Paulo Gustavo Prado2, Bambi Semroc3 and Conrad Savy3, (1)Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, (2)Conservation International, Brazil, (3)Conservation International, VA
9:00 AM
Inter-American Development Bank efforts in promoting sustainable biofuels
Gloria Visconti, Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Unit, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC
9:30 AM
Coffee Break Sponsored by Energy Biosciences Institute
10:00 AM
An integrated analysis tool to guide sustainable biomass production
Robert P. Anex, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, David J. Muth Jr., Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, J. Richard Hess, Biofuels & Renewable Energy Technologies, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, Tom L. Richard, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Douglas L. Karlen, Soil, Water and Air Resources Research Unit, USDA/ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, IA
10:30 AM
The Global Sustainable Bioenergy project: Gracefully reconciling large-scale biofuel production with other land use priorities
Lee R. Lynd, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Mascoma Corp., Hanover, NH, Carlos Enrique de Brito Cruz, FAESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Ethan B. Davis, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Andre Faaij, Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, Jon Foley, University of Minnesota, Jose Goldemberg, Universit of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nathanael Greene, Natural Resources Defense Council, Mark Laser, Cummings 8000, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Reinhold Mann, PETRONAS Renewable Energy Laboratory, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Patricia Osseweijer, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, Tom L. Richard, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, John Sheehan, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, August Temu, World Agroforestry Centre and Emile van Zy, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
11:00 AM
Models, science and the precautionary principle:  Land-use change and the sustainability of biomass systems
Keith L. Kline, Virginia H. Dale and Gbadebo A. Oladosu, Center for Bioenergy Sustainability, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
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