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Wouter Achten's profile
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What I do
Since October 2006 I am a doctoral research fellow at the Division Forest, Nature and landscape (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) on a scholarship of VLIR-UOS and in collaboration with the World Agroforesty Centre (ICRAF) – India.
My strong interest in the overall environmental impact of tropical bio-energy crops drove me to write a PhD project that focuses on the life cycle assessment of bio-diesel production from Jatropha curcas L., not only covering the energy and greenhouse gas balance but also the land use impact. Since only few is known on this so-called ‘wonderplant’, we also look into its plant physiology, root architecture and land suitability. -
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- Division Forest, Nature and Landscape, K.U.Leuven
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Interests
° Tropical energy trees ° Bio-fuel ° Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) ° Land Use Impact Assessment ° Socio-economic drivers ° The tropics
Discussion interest goes to Land use issues: land competition, right land use on right place, land degradation, effect of land use change on global change, ...
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BIOTROPHA (2006 – 2010)
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Publications
ACHTEN W, VERCHOT L, FRANKEN Y, MATHIJS E, SINGH V, AERTS R, MUYS B. Jatropha bio-diesel production and use Biomass and Bioenergy (2008) doi: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2008.03.003
Achten WMJ, Dondeyne S, Mugogo S, Kafriti E, Poesen J, Deckers J, Muys B. Gully erosion in South Eastern Tanzania: spatial distribution and topographic thresholds. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie (2008)
Achten W, Mathijs E, Verchot L, Singh V, Aerts R, Muys B. Jatropha biodiesel fueling sustainability? Biofuels, Bioprod. Bioref. (4) , 283 - 291 (2007) doi: 10.1002/bbb.39
Achten WMJ, Muys B, Mathijs E, Singh VP, Verchot L. Life-cycle assessment of bio-diesel from Jatropha curcas L. energy balance, impact on global warming, land use impact. Book of proceedings - The 5th International Conference LCA in foods - 25-26 April, Gothenburg, Sweden , 96-102 (2007)
Achten WMJ, Reubens B, Maes W, Mathijs E, Verchot L, Singh VP, Poesen J, Muys B. Root architecture of the promising bio-diesel plant Jatropha. Communication in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences. Ghent University (ISSN 1379-1176) , 81-85 (2007)
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