Exploring the Potential of Bioeconomies in Watersheds - Case Study of the Lake Winnipeg Watershed
(2015) In IIIEE Master thesis IMEN56 20151The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
- Abstract
- The bioeconomy at the watershed scale project is a project initiated by the International
Institute of Sustainable Development situated in Manitoba Canada. This project aims to create
a bioeconomy using the Common Cattail as the feedstock, while also creating ecosystem
services in the watershed through the maintenance of cattail cover. These services include
decreasing nutrient loading into Lake Winnipeg, and reducing the incidence of flooding,
among others. The dominance of the alternative sources of energy in Manitoba —
hydropower and natural gas prove to be the biggest socioeconomic barrier to overcome for
the expansion of the bioeconomy aspect of the project, of which bioenergy generation is
presently the strongest component.... (More) - The bioeconomy at the watershed scale project is a project initiated by the International
Institute of Sustainable Development situated in Manitoba Canada. This project aims to create
a bioeconomy using the Common Cattail as the feedstock, while also creating ecosystem
services in the watershed through the maintenance of cattail cover. These services include
decreasing nutrient loading into Lake Winnipeg, and reducing the incidence of flooding,
among others. The dominance of the alternative sources of energy in Manitoba —
hydropower and natural gas prove to be the biggest socioeconomic barrier to overcome for
the expansion of the bioeconomy aspect of the project, of which bioenergy generation is
presently the strongest component. The biggest socioeconomic drivers of the project were the
ecosystem services of flood and drought mitigation and reduction of nutrient loading into
water bodies that the project has the potential to contribute to. This has a strong potential to
attract private and public funding for the project, as both are serious concerns for the
Province. While the project has the ability to create different kinds of private and public
benefits it is the integrated nature of the benefits that the stakeholders involved consider is of
most importance. When a similar context from Minnesota in the USA was examined however,
a different set of benefits were given importance. This validates the importance of adapting
the project to generate the benefits that are important to that particular context, if this concept
is to be transferred to other watersheds. (Less)
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- author
- Arulingam, Indika LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- IMEN56 20151
- year
- 2015
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- cattail, bioeconomy, Lake Winnipeg Watershed
- publication/series
- IIIEE Master thesis
- report number
- 2015:14
- ISSN
- 1401-9191
- language
- English
- id
- 8084012
- date added to LUP
- 2015-10-23 11:25:12
- date last changed
- 2015-10-23 11:25:12
@misc{8084012, abstract = {{The bioeconomy at the watershed scale project is a project initiated by the International Institute of Sustainable Development situated in Manitoba Canada. This project aims to create a bioeconomy using the Common Cattail as the feedstock, while also creating ecosystem services in the watershed through the maintenance of cattail cover. These services include decreasing nutrient loading into Lake Winnipeg, and reducing the incidence of flooding, among others. The dominance of the alternative sources of energy in Manitoba — hydropower and natural gas prove to be the biggest socioeconomic barrier to overcome for the expansion of the bioeconomy aspect of the project, of which bioenergy generation is presently the strongest component. The biggest socioeconomic drivers of the project were the ecosystem services of flood and drought mitigation and reduction of nutrient loading into water bodies that the project has the potential to contribute to. This has a strong potential to attract private and public funding for the project, as both are serious concerns for the Province. While the project has the ability to create different kinds of private and public benefits it is the integrated nature of the benefits that the stakeholders involved consider is of most importance. When a similar context from Minnesota in the USA was examined however, a different set of benefits were given importance. This validates the importance of adapting the project to generate the benefits that are important to that particular context, if this concept is to be transferred to other watersheds.}}, author = {{Arulingam, Indika}}, issn = {{1401-9191}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, series = {{IIIEE Master thesis}}, title = {{Exploring the Potential of Bioeconomies in Watersheds - Case Study of the Lake Winnipeg Watershed}}, year = {{2015}}, }