IMPLICATIONS OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION CHAINS IN RESTRUCTURING RURAL SPACE

Matteo Puttilli (1) , Nadia Tecco (1)

1 Dipartimento Interateneo Territorio

This contribution focuses on the relationship between rural systems and biofuels production, referring to a more general relationship between territorial organisation and renewable energies.This is a very crucial issue, since energy production from renewable sources is assuming an ever more pivotal role in the most recent international debate on sustainable development. Biofuels represent, in Europe as in other parts of the world, a promising technology to produce fuel and one of the more realistic alternative to partially corrode the role of oil into the transport sector. Starting from the presentation of two Italian case studies, the paper aims at developing an interpretative framework to analyze the different perspectives/approaches by which the biodiesel production can interact with the territory (mostly rural but not only) and engage different actors.Through the distinction between an industrial and a territorial model and the identification of their respective challenges, potentialities and limits, the paper ends with a reflection on what Italian policies have been done until now to promote a domestic agro-energetic chain of biodiesel.

Mots clés: Rural territory; biofuels; industrial production; spatial embeddedness

Domaines: Agriculture, économie et politique

Matteo Puttilli, Nadia Tecco. IMPLICATIONS OF BIODIESEL PRODUCTION CHAINS IN RESTRUCTURING RURAL SPACE. ISDA 2010, Jun 2010, Montpellier, France. 11 p. ⟨hal-00520767⟩