Evaluation of Biomass Production Considering Land Use Change

Abstract

Human beings have dramatically converted forest land to agricultural field in the past three century. Currently, technological innovation to produce biofuel from plant is wondered as a new land use pressure. This paper reviewed several studies which evaluated biomass production including the impact of land use change. Life cycle greenhouse gas emission by biomass production has been studied by considering direct and indirect land use change. In addition, land use change avoidance scenario and comparing with afforestation also has been discussed. Currently, climate regulation services of biomass production were arisen to discuss in some studies. Further study is needed to evaluate the several aspects of ecosystem services about land use change by biomass production.