Project R-2074

Crop based systems for sustainable risk based land management for economically marginal degraded areas, phase II: demonstration projects and evaluation decision support tool. (Research)

The goal of the project Rejuvenate 2 is to enable a transparent and robust decision-making process to facilitate the responsible, sustainable and appropriate use of contaminated marginal land for biofuel and other biomass production. A consistent decision making approach will support an increase in the land area for biofuel crop growth, by improving the effectiveness of decision making and providing a common platform for different stakeholders, e.g. land owners, developers, planners and regulators to engage in discussions. The project Rejuvenate 2 is based on the project Rejuvenate 1, which developed a set of model procedures to support decision making for bringing marginal land back into use for such non-food crops (so-called Decision Support Tool (DST)). This project will apply the DST to practical case studies at realistic scales. Based on this test-work, the aims of this project are to i) validate and optimise the decision making framework, ii) provide detailed case studies for the re-use of contaminated land for biofuel crop production in particular for secondary biofuels and iii) to extend the scope of the DST by applying and validating it in two new jurisdictions (Netherlands and Romania). The Centre for Environmental Sciences is responsible for the legal and economic part of the project.

01 January 2010 - 31 December 2012