A5034869597- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Education Systems and Policy
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Higher Education Learning Practices
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Social Capital and Networks
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Adult and Continuing Education Topics
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Forest Management and Policy
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Historical Education Studies Worldwide
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Australian History and Society
- Global Education Systems and Policies
- Forest ecology and management
- Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
- Nitrogen and Sulfur Effects on Brassica
- European Union Policy and Governance
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2021-2025
Colorado State University
2012-2022
University of Stirling
2003-2020
Australian National University
2010
California State University System
2008
California State University, Fresno
1999-2003
University of Warwick
1978-2001
University of Ulster
1996-1997
University of Leeds
1995
Northern College
1983
REVIEW article Front. Plant Sci., 01 July 2013Sec. Biotechnology Volume 4 - 2013 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2013.00218
Significance The climate benefits of cellulosic biofuels have been challenged based on carbon debt, opportunity costs, and indirect land use change, prompting calls for withdrawing support research development. Using a quantitative ecosystem modeling approach, which explicitly differentiates primary production, balance, biomass harvest, we show that none these arguments preclude from realizing greenhouse gas mitigation. Our assessment illustrates how deliberate choices the performance...
Abstract Biochar has been advocated as a method of sequestering carbon while simultaneously improving crop yields and agro‐ecosystem sustainability. It can be produced from wide variety biomass feedstocks using different thermochemical conversion technologies with or without the recovery energy coproducts, resulting in chars differing quality range overall system greenhouse gas ( GHG ) mitigation outcomes. This analysis expands on previous sustainability studies by proposing mechanistic life...
Abstract Marginal land has received wide attention for its potential to produce bioenergy feedstocks while minimizing diversion of productive agricultural from food crop production. However, there been no consensus in the literature on how define or identify that is marginal crops and beneficial crops. Studies have used different definitions quantify amount such available; these largely based assumed biophysical thresholds soil quality productivity are unchanging over space time. We discuss...
While the goal of lifelong learning commands a broad policy consensus, it has been widely criticized by adults educationists for its conservatism. This paper explores origins concept in 1960s and 1970s, compares key themes with dominant approaches recent period. there was turning point during 1990s, chief feature that less slogan than tool reform modernization aspects national education training systems. Its rise accompanied wider transformation relationship between civil society state...
Biochar amendment to soil is a potential technology for carbon storage and climate change mitigation. It may, in addition, be valuable fertility enhancer agricultural purposes sandy and/or weathered soils. A life cycle assessment including ecological, health resource impacts has been conducted field sites Zambia evaluate the overall of biochar use. The from conservation farming using cultivation growth basins precision fertilization with without addition were present study compared...
Abstract Brassica carinata or Ethiopian mustard, a non‐edible oilseed brassica, is low carbon, purpose‐grown, and none‐to‐low indirect land‐use change bioenergy feedstock for the production of drop‐in sustainable aviation fuel, biodiesel, renewable diesel, suite value‐added coproducts. Carinata oil converted to fuel using an American Society Testing Materials approved Catalytic Hydrothermolysis process has been successfully tested in commercial military aviation. meal, residue after...
Lifelong learning occupies a leading place in policy discourse, but specific measures of any substance are relatively rare. The article argues thatthis is not simply product political bad faith, lack resources, or the weak lobbying power relevant vested interests. It also associated with nature lifelong as issue, aggravated by changes government. an amorphous phenomenon which relies upon behaviour range actors, and solely even primarily that governments. In so far it involves governments,...
Don’t get distracted by the title (though more of that later): this book presents a radical alternative agenda for further education (FE) sector in Britain. The sector’s budget England was r...
Economically viable production of biobased products and fuels requires high-yielding, high-quality, sustainable process-advantaged crops, developed using bioengineering or advanced breeding approaches. Understanding which crop phenotypic traits have the largest impact on biofuel economics sustainability outcomes is important for targeted feedstock development. Here, we evaluated biomass yield cell-wall composition across a large natural variant population switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.)...
Breeding or engineering crops to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) storage is a potential route land-based dioxide removal on working agricultural lands. However, due limited observational datasets plus shifting paradigms of SOC stabilization, there lack understanding which plant traits target for enhancement the ultimate sequestration such measures. Existing long-term common gardens genetically diverse populations may provide an opportunity evaluate biological controls outcomes, separate...
Abstract Renewable fuel standards in the US and elsewhere mandate production of large quantities cellulosic biofuels with low greenhouse gas ( GHG ) footprints, a requirement which will likely entail extensive cultivation dedicated bioenergy feedstock crops on marginal agricultural lands. Performance data for such systems is sparse, non‐linear interactions between species, agronomic management intensity, underlying soil land characteristics complicate development sustainable landscape design...
The concept of social capital commands considerable attention right across the sciences and among policy community. In recent years, it has also generated a lively debate research community in lifelong learning. There is some emerging evidence that associated with learning adult life, but nature relationship remains very unclear. paper reports on findings from attitudes survey Northern Ireland.
Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production from lipids is a technologically mature approach for replacing conventional fossil use in the sector, and there increasing demand such feedstocks. The oilseed Brassica carinata (known as Ethiopian mustard or simply carinata) promising SAF feedstock that can be grown supplemental cash crop over winter fallow season of various annual rotations Southeast US, avoiding land changes potentially achieving some soil carbon sequestration ecosystem service...