Efficiency and Sustainability in Biofuel Production

Introduction Part I: Land Use and Biofuels The Importance of Land Use Change in the Environmental Balance of Biofuels; Wassim Ben Aoun, Benoit Gabrielle, and Bruno Gagnepain Energy Potential and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Bioenergy Cropping Systems on Marginally Productive Cropland; Marty R. Schmer, Kenneth P. Vogel, Gary E. Varvel, Ronald F. Follett, Robert B. Mitchell, and Virginia L. Jin Integration of Farm Fossil Fuel Use with Local Scale Assessments of Biofuel Feedstock Production in Canada; J. A. Dyer, R. L. Desjardins, B. G. McConkey, S. Kulshreshtha, and X. P. C. Verge Evaluating the Marginal Land Resources Suitable for Developing Bioenergy in Asia; Jingying Fu, Dong Jiang, Yaohuan Huang, Dafang Zhuang, and Wei Ji Energy Potential of Biomass from Conservation Grasslands in Minnesota, USA; Jacob M. Jungers, Joseph E. Fargione, Craig C. Sheaffer, Donald L. Wyse, and Clarence Lehman Seasonal Energy Storage Using Bioenergy Production from Abandoned Croplands; J. Elliott Campbell, David B. Lobell, Robert C. Genova, Andrew Zumkehr, and Christopher B. Field Part II: Second-Generation Biofuels and Sustainability Biodiesel from Grease Interceptor to Gas Tank; Alyse Mary E. Ragauskas, Yunqiao Pu, and Art J. Ragauskas Efficient Extraction of Xylan from Delignified Corn Stover Using Dimethyl Sulfoxide; John Rowley, Stephen R. Decker, William Michener, and Stuart Black The Possibility of Future Biofuels Production Using Waste Carbon Dioxide and Solar Energy; Krzysztof Biernat, Artur Malinowski, and Malwina Gnat Well-to-Wheels Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Ethanol from Corn, Sugarcane and Cellulosic Biomass for US Use; Michael Wang, Jeongwoo Han, Jennifer B. Dunn, Hao Cai, and Amgad Elgowainy Lessons from First Generation Biofuels and Implications for the Sustainability Appraisal of Second Generation Biofuels; Alison Mohr and Sujatha Raman Index