The paper clarifies the social and value dimensions for integrated sustainability assessments of lignocellulosic biofuels. We develop a responsible innovation approach, looking at technology impacts and implementation challenges, assumptions and value conflicts influencing how impacts are identified and assessed, and different visions for future development. We identify three distinct value-based visions. From a techno-economic perspective, lignocellulosic biofuels can contribute to energy security with improved GHG implications and fewer sustainability problems than fossil fuels and first-generation biofuels, especially when biomass is domestically sourced. From socio-economic and cultural-economic perspectives, there are concerns about the capacity to support UK-sourced feedstocks in a global agri-economy, difficulties monitoring large-scale supply chains and their potential for distributing impacts unfairly, and tensions between domestic sourcing and established legacies of farming. To respond to these concerns, we identify the potential for moving away from a one-size-fits-all biofuel/biorefinery model to regionally-tailored bioenergy configurations that might lower large-scale uses of land for meat, reduce monocultures and fossil-energy needs of farming and diversify business models. These configurations could explore ways of reconciling some conflicts between food, fuel and feed (by mixing feed crops with lignocellulosic material for fuel, combining livestock grazing with energy crops, or using crops such as miscanthus to manage land that is no longer arable); different bioenergy applications (with on-farm use of feedstocks for heat and power and for commercial biofuel production); and climate change objectives and pressures on farming. Findings are based on stakeholder interviews, literature synthesis and discussions with an expert advisory group.

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将社会和价值维度整合到木质纤维素生物燃料的可持续性评估中。

本文阐明了木质纤维素生物燃料综合可持续性评估的社会和价值维度。我们制定负责任的创新方法，着眼于技术影响和实施挑战、影响如何识别和评估影响的假设和价值冲突，以及对未来发展的不同愿景。我们确定了三个不同的基于价值的愿景。从技术经济的角度来看，与化石燃料和第一代生物燃料相比，木质纤维素生物燃料可以促进能源安全，改善温室气体排放，减少可持续性问题，尤其是在生物质来源于国内的情况下。从社会经济和文化经济的角度来看，人们担心在全球农业经济中支持英国来源的原料的能力，难以监测大规模供应链及其不公平分配影响的可能性，以及国内采购与既定农业遗产之间的紧张关系。为了回应这些担忧，我们确定了从一刀切的生物燃料/生物精炼模式转变为区域定制的生物能源配置的潜力，这可能会降低肉类土地的大规模使用，减少单一栽培和化石能源农业需求和商业模式多样化。这些配置可以探索调和食物、燃料和饲料之间的一些冲突的方法（通过将饲料作物与作为燃料的木质纤维素材料混合，将牲畜放牧与能源作物相结合，或使用芒草等作物来管理不再可耕种的土地）；不同的生物能源应用（在农场使用原料用于热能和电力以及商业生物燃料生产）；气候变化目标和农业压力。调查结果基于利益相关者访谈、文献综合以及与专家咨询小组的讨论。