MONITORING A BIOBASED ECONOMY IN THE NETHERLANDS

摘要

Sustainable production and use of biomass for the biobased economy and bioenergy is being implementedrnin the Netherlands. In order to gain insight into the material flows and economic impact several studies have been carriedrnout. As a result a protocol for monitoring biobased material flows in a biobased economy was developed and initial datarnabout the economic impact were collected. This paper describes the protocol and monitoring results for thernNetherlands.Results reveal that the application of biomass in the chemical sector result in higher economic value.