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3.2.3 Why This Perspective Is Important in the Study
of Biofuel Deployment
Our strategy is robust because it reflects the realities of biofuel deployment at all
levels. International arrangements need to be supported by enormous number of
stakeholders in the field. Efforts at the local level must be supported and diffused
nationally and internationally in order to have a large-scale impact. Multilevel governance perspective leads us to pay more attention to the interactions between different layers so that efforts at different levels can have a synergy effect.
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3.2.3 Why This Perspective Is Important in the Study
of Biofuel Deployment
Our strategy is robust because it reflects the realities of biofuel deployment at all
levels. International arrangements need to be supported by enormous number of
stakeholders in the field. Efforts at the local level must be supported and diffused
nationally and internationally in order to have a large-scale impact. Multilevel governance perspective leads us to pay more attention to the interactions between different layers so that efforts at different levels can have a synergy effect.
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial 2.5 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/),
which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any
medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source,
provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.
The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter’s Creative
Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not
included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by
statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from
the copyright holder.
M. Matsuura and H. Shiroyama