Visualizing Sustainability: Developing Geospatial Technology to Address Sustainable Biofuel Production: Assessing the Impact of Ecological Consideration on Forest Biomass Projections

Biomass2009, Feedstock, Feedstocks, Forestry/Wood/Residues/Waste, Sustainability

April 13, 2010

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By Jocelyn Tutak (Conservation Biology Institute). This presentation was mostly focused on developing a method of incorporating ecological considerations into woody biomass. The presentation contains many slides of the studied area, the data, methods of ecological consideration, ecological values and different types of buffers used in research, along with graphs and maps.

Some of the advantages of Forest Biomass mentioned in the presentation:

· Replaces fossil fuels with a cleaner, renewable alternative

· Lovers carbon dioxide emissions

· Supports growth of agricultural, rural, and forestry economies

· Reduces dependence of foreign oil and gas imports

At the same time, some of the disadvantages are:

· Climate impacts from extraction, transportation, burning

· Soil degradation

· Increased water run-off pollution

· Decrease in biodiversity by destroying habitat READ MORE

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