Assessing Land Use and Biodiversity Impacts of Industrial Biotechnology.

Assessing Land Use and Biodiversity Impacts of Industrial Biotechnology. Adv Biochem Eng Biotechnol. 2019 Dec 09;: Authors: Lindner JP, Beck T, Bos U, Albrecht S Abstract One of the many promises of biotechnology is that it allows societies to move away from a fossil-based industry toward a bio-based industry, with positive implications for anthropogenic climate change and resource dependency. The provision of biomass from agriculture or forestry is, however, linked to specific environmental implications that cannot be disregarded in an informed discussion about the role of biotechnology in the twenty-first century. In this chapter, we discuss landuse-related effects of biomass provision such as landscape homogenization, eutrophication, erosion, biodiversity, and others. We also discuss how these effects are represented in Life Cycle Assessment, which is a powerful tool for product sustainability evaluation. PMID: 31814053 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Advances in Biochemical Engineering Biotechnology - Category: Biotechnology Authors: Tags: Adv Biochem Eng Biotechnol Source Type: research