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Foreword 11
José Goldemberg, professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil
Chapter 1 Introduction to sugarcane ethanol contributions to climate change
mitigation and the environment 19
Peter Zuurbier and Jos van de Vooren
Chapter 2 Land use dynamics and sugarcane production 29
Günther Fischer, Edmar Teixeira, Eva Tothne Hizsnyik and Harrij van Velthuizen
Chapter 3 Prospects of the sugarcane expansion in Brazil: impacts on direct
and indirect land use changes 63
André Meloni Nassar, Bernardo F.T. Rudorff, Laura Barcellos Antoniazzi, Daniel
Alves de Aguiar, Miriam Rumenos Piedade Bacchi and Marcos Adami
Chapter 4 Mitigation of GHG emissions using sugarcane bioethanol 95
Isaias C. Macedo and Joaquim E.A. Seabra
Chapter 5 Environmental sustainability of sugarcane ethanol in Brazil 113
Weber Antônio Neves do Amaral, João Paulo Marinho, Rudy Tarasantchi, Augusto
Beber and Eduardo Giuliani
Chapter 6 Demand for bioethanol for transport 139
Andre Faaij, Alfred Szwarc and Arnaldo Walter
Chapter 7 Biofuel conversion technologies 159
Andre Faaij
Chapter 8 The global impacts of US and EU biofuels policies 181
Wallace E. Tyner
Chapter 9 Impacts of sugarcane bioethanol towards the Millennium
Development Goals 199
Annie Dufey
Chapter 10 Why are current food prices so high? 227
Martin Banse, Peter Nowicki and Hans van Meijl
Acknowledgements
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