Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Conference papers |
| URL | http://www.iemss.org/society/index.php/iemss-2014-proceedings |
| Title (Primary) | Trade-offs of biogas production: comparing crop ro-tations under different climate scenarios |
| Title (Secondary) | Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs), June 15-19, San Diego, California, USA |
| Author | Lautenbach, S.; Volk, M.; Strauch, M.
; Whittaker, G.; Seppelt, R. |
| Publisher | Ames, D.P.; Quinn, N.W.T.; Rizzoli, A.E. |
| Year | 2014 |
| Department | CLE |
| Page From | 1 |
| Page To | 8 |
| Language | englisch |
| Keywords | River basin management; Ecosystem Services; trade-offs; bioenergy; land use; optimiza-tion 1 |
| UFZ wide themes | RU1; |
| Abstract | While increasing biofuel production is worldwide on the political agenda, concerns about the involved trade-offs are on the rise. However, the quantification of these trade-offs is typically based on the comparison of a limited number of plausible alternatives. We extended the analysis by applying a multi-objective genetic algorithm to estimate the set of Pareto optimal solutions which de-scribe the trade-offs between the objectives. The Pareto solutions represent the (estimated) best op-tions given the model and the specified control options. Our analysis studied food and fodder based crop rotations and two alternative biogas crop production schemes: a corn based production scheme and a two-culture production scheme which combines a summer and a winter crop. The integrated river basin model SWAT was used to evaluate the effects of the different production schemes on bio-energy crop production, food and fodder crop production, water quality and low flow discharge. The analysis took place in a medium sized agricultural watershed (~320km2) in Central Germany. We run the optimization algorithm for combinations of the three sets of crop rotations to identify the trade-offs. The two biogas crop rotation schemes showed significant differences in their trade-offs with water quality and low flow conditions. High corn yields led to increasing nitrate concentrations while high bioenergy crop yields based on the two culture system led to decreases in low flow. But trade-offs depended on the choice of food and fodder crops as well. To assess the robustness of the solutions, we compared trade-offs under current climate conditions with trade-offs under two climate scenarios (A1B and B1 scenarios statistically downscaled by WEREX-IV approach for the time period 2014-2100). The estimated trade-offs differed significantly under the different climate conditions, highlight-ing thereby that trade-off analysis has to consider changing boundary conditions. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=14993 |
| Lautenbach, S., Volk, M., Strauch, M., Whittaker, G., Seppelt, R. (2014): Trade-offs of biogas production: comparing crop ro-tations under different climate scenarios In: Ames, D.P., Quinn, N.W.T., Rizzoli, A.E. (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs), June 15-19, San Diego, California, USA International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), Manno, 1 - 8 |
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