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Fig. 1 Schematic location of studied sites (adapted from ID Champagne-Ardennes biorefinery
maps)
port communications and big cities. The study will consider the construction of a
new biorefinery facility there. Site 3 is situated near Nancy, where road communication is well-developed. Several development and research centers and experimental
platforms are located near the site. However, site 3 does not include any existing
industrial structures. Therefore, the construction of a new biorefinery will also be
considered.
The first preliminary analysis of socio-economic and environmental aspects of
these sites is presented below.
3.1 Social and Economic Impacts and Territorial
Embeddedness
Despite the fact that socio-economic aspects, along with environmental ones, are
part of a sustainable development strategy, they have currently received very little
attention in biorefinery studies (Raman et al. 2015). Furthermore, when studied,
those aspects are reduced to quantitative parameters (e.g. the number of jobs created
(López-Díaz et al. 2017)) or to static parameters (existing know-how (Harvey and
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Fig. 1 Schematic location of studied sites (adapted from ID Champagne-Ardennes biorefinery
maps)
port communications and big cities. The study will consider the construction of a
new biorefinery facility there. Site 3 is situated near Nancy, where road communication is well-developed. Several development and research centers and experimental
platforms are located near the site. However, site 3 does not include any existing
industrial structures. Therefore, the construction of a new biorefinery will also be
considered.
The first preliminary analysis of socio-economic and environmental aspects of
these sites is presented below.
3.1 Social and Economic Impacts and Territorial
Embeddedness
Despite the fact that socio-economic aspects, along with environmental ones, are
part of a sustainable development strategy, they have currently received very little
attention in biorefinery studies (Raman et al. 2015). Furthermore, when studied,
those aspects are reduced to quantitative parameters (e.g. the number of jobs created
(López-Díaz et al. 2017)) or to static parameters (existing know-how (Harvey and