Livelihood impacts of biofuel crop production: Implications for governance
Livelihood impacts of biofuel crop production: Implications for governance
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DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.09.022
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发表时间：
2014-07-01
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3.5
通讯作者：
Creutzig, Felix
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作者：
Hunsberger, Carol;Bolwig, Simon;Creutzig, Felix
虽然许多注意力集中在生物燃料减缓气候变化的潜力上，但社会科学的研究日益强调其扩大生产的社会和生计影响。旨在改善生物燃料社会效应的政策和治理措施已经激增，但它们在整个价值链中的有效性仍然存在问题。本文基于对生物燃料作物部署的社会科学研究的新见解，完成了三项任务。首先，我们确定了在全球发展中国家特别可能受到其种植影响的生计维度——收入、粮食安全、获得土地资源和社会资产——揭示了分配效应对于评估生物燃料生产在这些维度上的结果至关重要。其次，我们询问选定的生物燃料治理机制如何解决生计和公平问题。第三，借鉴非能源农业价值链相关文献，为改善民生提供一套思路。我们的分析表明，生物燃料政策将生计视为次要问题，将生计置于其他目标之后。我们建议从一开始就将生计纳入一个多标准政策框架——一个优先考虑公平问题和总体结果的政策框架。我们还表明，在保障生计和平等方面规定最有力的文书似乎最不可能得到执行。总之，改变生物燃料治理工具的优先事项和相对等级，可以帮助制定更有效地解决生计和公平问题的战略。(C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd.版权所有。
While much attention has focused on the climate change mitigation potential of biofuels, research from the social sciences increasingly highlights the social and livelihood impacts of their expanded production. Policy and governance measures aimed at improving the social effects of biofuels have proliferated but questions remain about their effectiveness across the value chain. This paper performs three tasks building on emerging insights from social science research on the deployment of biofuel crops. First, we identify livelihood dimensions that are particularly likely to be affected by their cultivation in the global South - income, food security, access to land-based resources, and social assets - revealing that distributional effects are crucial to evaluating the outcomes of biofuel production across these dimensions. Second, we ask how well selected biofuel governance mechanisms address livelihood and equity concerns. Third, we draw insights from literature on non-energy agricultural value chains to provide one set of ideas for improving livelihood outcomes. Our analysis demonstrates that biofuel policies treat livelihoods as a second-degree problem, specifying livelihoods as an afterthought to other goals. We suggest integrating livelihoods into a multi-criteria policy framework from the start - one that prioritizes equity issues as well as overall outcomes. We also show that the instruments with strongest provisions for safeguarding livelihoods and equity appear least likely to be implemented. Together, shifting both the priorities and the relative hierarchy of biofuel governance instruments could help produce strategies that more effectively address livelihood and equity concerns. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.