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Political Economy of Biofuels

In: The Impacts of Biofuels on the Economy, Environment, and Poverty

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  • David Zilberman

    (University of California, Berkeley)

  • Scott Kaplan

    (Resource Economics at the University of California)

  • Gal Hochman

    (Rutgers University)

  • Deepak Rajagopal

    (University of California Los-Angeles)

Abstract

While timber and other biomass have been the main sources of fuel for millennia, there has been an increasing emphasis on growing crops and converting feedstock to liquid fuels (Rajagopal et al. 2009) or for use in power plants. These new fuels were induced by government policies and often require a diversion of resources from agricultural to energy production. Analyzing the performance of biofuels and biofuel policies requires a political economic lens—this chapter will provide such a framework to assess biofuels.

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  • David Zilberman & Scott Kaplan & Gal Hochman & Deepak Rajagopal, 2014. "Political Economy of Biofuels," Natural Resource Management and Policy, in: Govinda R. Timilsina & David Zilberman (ed.), The Impacts of Biofuels on the Economy, Environment, and Poverty, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 131-144, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nrmchp:978-1-4939-0518-8_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0518-8_11
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