The availability of land for perennial energy crops in Great Britain

Andrew Lovett; Gilla Sünnenberg; Trudie Dockerty

doi:10.1111/gcbb.12147

The availability of land for perennial energy crops in Great Britain

Andrew Lovett, Gilla Sünnenberg, Trudie Dockerty

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This paper defines the potentially available land for perennial energy crops across Great Britain as the first component of a broader appraisal undertaken by the ‘Spatial Modelling of Bioenergy in Great Britain to 2050’ project. Combining data on seven primary constraints in a GIS reduced the available area to just over 9 M ha (40% of GB). Adding other restrictions based on land cover naturalness scores to represent landscape considerations resulted in a final area of 8.5 M ha (37% of GB). This distribution was compared with the locations of Miscanthus and SRC willow established under the English Energy Crop Scheme during 2001–2011 and it was found that 83% of the planting fell within the defined available land. Such a correspondence provides confidence that the factors considered in the analysis were broadly consistent with previous planting decisions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	99-107
Number of pages	9
Journal	Global Change Biology Bioenergy
Volume	6
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12147
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2014

Keywords

geographical information systems
land availability
land use
landscape sensitivity
perennial energy crops
planting constraints

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Andrew Lovett
- A.Lovettuea.acuk
- School of Environmental Sciences - Professor of Geography
- Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) - Member
- Environmental Social Sciences - Member
- ClimateUEA - Steering Committee Member
Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching & Research

Spatial Mapping of Energy Crop Distribution in Great Britain to 2050
Lovett, A.
Natural Environment Research Council
10/06/10 → 30/09/12
Project: Research

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The availability of land for perennial energy crops in Great Britain

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