Ricerc@Sapienza

The identification and engagement of stakeholders is a challenge whose outcomes have a strong impact on a project’s success. This is even more relevant when the project concerns the introduction of sustainable technologies; these technologies are often less competitive on the market than traditional ones, both in terms of development complexity and production costs. This paper presents a stakeholder identification and mapping procedure, based on an Interest x Influence model, that emphasizes a quantitative methodological approach.

Growing domestic and international ethanol demand is expected to result in increased sugarcane cultivation in Brazil. Sugarcane expansion currently results in land-use changes mainly in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest biomes, two severely threatened biodiversity hotspots. This study quantifies potential biodiversity impacts of increased ethanol demand in Brazil in a spatially explicit manner. We project changes in potential total, threatened, endemic, and range-restricted mammals' species richness up to 2030.

Municipal solid waste (MSW) is one of the residue materials considered as a potential
source for biofuel production in the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED), which establishes
that a minimum of 10% biofuels for transport shall be used in every Member State
by 2020, thus promoting advanced biofuel from waste. A high-temperature gasification
technology transforms MSW into a syngas rich in hydrogen and carbon monoxide and
free of tar, char and harmful compounds like dioxins appearing as a promising root for