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Sustainable Resources: From Plants to Products

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The demand for renewable raw materials is constantly increasing. However, the cultivation of these crops is in direct competition with the areas used for food production. In addition, the area of arable land is continuously decreasing due to new settlement and devastated areas. Altogether it will become more and more important to cultivate low-input biomass plants of the second generation, which in an ideal case can be cultivated on marginal areas like industrial wasteland. This envisages the current bio-economic strategy of Germany by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. A wider range of the so-called “ecosystem services” can be provided easily by perennial renewable biomass plants, which are introduced in this chapter.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Cf. Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e. V.

  2. 2.

    Cf. Wever et al. (2020).

  3. 3.

    Cf. Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2015).

  4. 4.

    Cf. Emmerling and Pude (2017).

  5. 5.

    Cf. Wever et al. (2019).

  6. 6.

    Cf. Gansberger et al. (2015) and Wever et al. (2019).

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    Cf. Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e. V.

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    Cf. Lund University (2019) and Wever et al. (2020).

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    Cf. Lewandowski et al. (1995).

  10. 10.

    Cf. Kraska et al. (2015).

  11. 11.

    Cf. Kraska and Pude (2019) and Nguyen et al. (2021).

  12. 12.

    Cf. Kraska et al. (2018).

  13. 13.

    Cf. Pude et al. (2005) and Moll et al. (2020).

  14. 14.

    Cf. Pude and Petry (2016) and Schulte et al. (2021).

  15. 15.

    Cf. Moll et al. (2018).

  16. 16.

    Cf. Verband Deutscher Papierfabriken e. V. (2020).

  17. 17.

    Frase et al. (2018) and Höller et al. (2021).

  18. 18.

    Winzer et al., 2017.

  19. 19.

    Cf. Kraska et al., 2018.

  20. 20.

    Cf. www.bio-innovation.net [29.03.2020].

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    Ralf Pude, Christian Wever & Thorsten Kraska

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Pude, R., Wever, C., Kraska, T. (2022). Sustainable Resources: From Plants to Products. In: Lanzerath, D., Schurr, U., Pinsdorf, C., Stake, M. (eds) Bioeconomy and Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87402-5_3

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