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Chapter 9
Social, Economic, and Political Impacts
Masahiro Matsuura and Hideaki Shiroyama
9.1 Introduction
Authors have conducted two case studies of stakeholder analysis on the utilization
of sugarcane-based bioethanol in Brazil and palm-based biodiesel in Indonesia. Our
research has focused primarily on the aspects of exporting these biofuels to Japan in
order to give more concreteness to the stakeholder interviews. While these cases
provide unique contexts in the production of feedstocks and distillation processes in
each country, they also indicate common features that have to be considered in the
policies, either at the international or the national level, for the sustainable utilization of biofuels.
9.2 Case from Brazil
9.2.1 Method
We have conducted interviews with a wide range of stakeholders in 2008.
The interviewees are selected based on our literature review and inputs from the
partner in Brazil (Table 9.1).
M. Matsuura (*)
Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University,
1-1 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8301, Japan
e-mail: mmatsuura@meiji.ac.jp
H. Shiroyama
Graduate School of Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2018
K. Takeuchi et al. (eds.), Biofuels and Sustainability, Science for Sustainable
Societies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54895-9_9
Chapter 9
Social, Economic, and Political Impacts
Masahiro Matsuura and Hideaki Shiroyama
9.1 Introduction
Authors have conducted two case studies of stakeholder analysis on the utilization
of sugarcane-based bioethanol in Brazil and palm-based biodiesel in Indonesia. Our
research has focused primarily on the aspects of exporting these biofuels to Japan in
order to give more concreteness to the stakeholder interviews. While these cases
provide unique contexts in the production of feedstocks and distillation processes in
each country, they also indicate common features that have to be considered in the
policies, either at the international or the national level, for the sustainable utilization of biofuels.
9.2 Case from Brazil
9.2.1 Method
We have conducted interviews with a wide range of stakeholders in 2008.
The interviewees are selected based on our literature review and inputs from the
partner in Brazil (Table 9.1).
M. Matsuura (*)
Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University,
1-1 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8301, Japan
e-mail: mmatsuura@meiji.ac.jp
H. Shiroyama
Graduate School of Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan