Title:
Biomass Supply Chains Development in Rural Areas: How to Take Public Stakeholders' Needs and Expectations into Account?
Author(s):
Godard, L., Delesalle, M., Zub-preudhomme, H.W.
Document(s):
Paper
Slide presentation
Abstract:
The “Demonstrating Sites Network” project aims to contribute to developing biomass supply chains in rural areas of Northern France and to promoting their territorial integration. To do so, project partners are building a consulting procedure which will allow them to guide industrialists willing to develop a local bioeconomy project and who are looking for biomass supply. To collect the elements needed to build the procedure, three case studies have been followed. From these case studies, it has appeared that knowledge of public stakeholders' needs and expectations was incomplete to suggest information or ways which would guide them into territorial bioeconomy development. To fill this knowledge gap, a study has been led to identify public stakeholders' needs and expectations regarding bioeconomy development in their territories and to suggest ways to take them into account in the consulting procedure. The study followed four steps: a knowledge review about public stakeholders, identification of public stakeholders involved in the three case studies, collection of nine public stakeholders' needs and expectations and an offer for feedback and decision-making elements that should be taken into account in the consulting procedure. This study gave the opportunity to deal in depth with public stakeholders' decision-making process, applied to bioeconomy territorial projects. It highlighted which economic, environmental, social or interpersonal decision-making elements public stakeholders take into account when they have to make a decision about bioeconomy projects on their territories.
Keywords:
biomass, decision making, project development, stakeholders, supply chain, local
Topic:
Biomass Policies, Markets and Sustainability
Subtopic:
Sustainability and socio-economic aspects
Event:
26th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Session:
4CO.14.5
Pages:
1307 - 1310
ISBN:
978-88-89407-18-9
Paper DOI:
10.5071/26thEUBCE2018-4CO.14.5
Price:
FREE
