Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, Center for Environmental Technology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
Environ Manage. 2010 Oct;46(4):525-30. doi: 10.1007/s00267-010-9555-6. Epub 2010 Sep 14.
The sustainability implications of bioenergy development strategies are large and complex. Unlike conventional agriculture, bioenergy production provides an opportunity to design systems for improving eco-environmental services. Different places have different goals and solutions for bioenergy development, but they all should adhere to the sustainability requirements of the environment, economy, and society. This article serves as a brief overview of China's bioenergy development and as an introduction to this special issue on the impacts of bioenergy development in China. The eleven articles in this special issue present a range of perspectives and scenario analyses on bioenergy production and its impacts as well as potential barriers to its development. Five general themes are covered: status and goals, biomass resources, energy plants, environmental impacts, and economic and social impacts. The potential for bioenergy production in China is huge, particularly in the central north and northwest. China plans to develop a bioenergy capacity of 30GW by 2020. However, realization of this goal will require breakthroughs in bioenergy landscape design, energy plant biotechnology, legislation, incentive policy, and conversion facilities. Our analyses suggest that (1) the linkage between bioenergy, environment, and economy are often circular rather than linear in nature; (2) sustainability is a core concept in bioenergy design and the ultimate goal of bioenergy development; and (3) each bioenergy development scheme must be region-specific and designed to solve local environmental and agricultural problems.
生物能源发展战略的可持续性影响是巨大而复杂的。与传统农业不同，生物能源生产提供了一个设计系统以改善生态环境服务的机会。不同的地方对生物能源发展有不同的目标和解决方案，但它们都应该遵守环境、经济和社会的可持续性要求。本文简要概述了中国的生物能源发展情况，并作为本期关于中国生物能源发展影响的特刊介绍。本期特刊中的 11 篇文章从不同角度和情景分析了生物能源生产及其影响，以及其发展的潜在障碍。涵盖了五个主题：现状与目标、生物质资源、能源植物、环境影响和经济社会影响。中国的生物能源生产潜力巨大，特别是在中北部和西北部。中国计划到 2020 年开发 30GW 的生物能源产能。然而，要实现这一目标，需要在生物能源景观设计、能源植物生物技术、立法、激励政策和转化设施方面取得突破。我们的分析表明：（1）生物能源、环境和经济之间的联系通常是循环的，而不是线性的；（2）可持续性是生物能源设计的核心概念，也是生物能源发展的最终目标；（3）每个生物能源发展方案都必须具有区域特色，并旨在解决当地的环境和农业问题。
