Journal Article

·2016 OPEN ACCESS

Can Biomass Energy Be a Potential for Rural Development? A Roadmap for Karacabey (Bursa)

Pınar Balci YTU

Journal of Planning

Abstract

The importance given to renewable energy has been gradually increasing as it helps countries to reduce environmental pollution and their dependence on foreign energy. Raw materials used in biomass renewable energy are mainly obtained from the implementation of energy agriculture. In this way; local resources are used for the production of environment-friendly renewable energy, agricultural activities are stimulated and thus rural development can be reinforced in less developed peripheral regions. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between biomass energy, energy agriculture and rural development in Karacabey. For this purpose, the potentials of this rural region are studied and a road map for local development is presented.

Keywords

Biomass (ecology) Environmental science Business Biology Ecology

Subject Areas

Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development ·General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ·Life Sciences
Energy and Environment Impacts ·Pollution ·Physical Sciences
Biofuel production and bioconversion ·Biomedical Engineering ·Physical Sciences