Biomass - a renewable energy source? Sustainable complementary biomass (re)production through Landscape Quality Management

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Authors

  • Anja Brüll
In its original sense biomass denotes living mass. Through biomass not only a bio-chemical energy potential is renewed, but also vital living conditions and quality of live domains: for example a favorable climate, water and soil quality as well as spaces for habitat, recreation and identification. Retaining the capacity for such (re)productive and value-creating 'biological-ecological work' needs to be considered when using bioenergy for 'technical work'. Hence, the design and application of bioenergy technology should involve a place-based landscape context. Based on this argumentation Anja Brüll unfolds in this book the concept of 'Landscape Quality Management (LQM)' - a standardized adaptive stakeholder process to continuously improve various quality aspects of the landscape. The process also serves to assess and develop the sustainability of biomass production and eventually other land uses. The author goes on to develop 'complementary biomass production' as a regional guiding principle. That means to use biomass sources and practices, which do not compete with agricultural food production, but complement it in terms of providing ecosystem services and contributing to landscape quality. Several case studies illustrate this convincing approach. Finally, it is shown how LQM could provide a source of innovation for sustainable production by linking it with corporate environmental and quality management.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationAachen
PublisherShaker Verlag
Number of pages308
ISBN (print)978-3-8440-3959-7
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Publication statusPublished - 10.2015

Publication series

NameSchriftenreihe der Reiner Lemoine-Stiftung
PublisherReiner Lemoine-Stiftung Neuss
Volume31
ISSN (Print)2193-7575

Bibliographical note

Zugl.: Lüneburg, Univ., Diss., 2015

Note re. dissertation

Die Dissertation wird betreut von Prof. Sabine Hofmeister an der Fakultät Umwelt und Technik, Institut für Umweltstrategien, Fach Umweltplanung der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

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