The role of controversy, regulation and engineering in UK biofuel development

摘要: Abstract Biofuels have undergone a controversial resurgence in the UK since turn of century. The aim this article is to consider development context ongoing interactions between controversy and regulatory engineering activities. It found that discursive space has increasingly narrowed around environmental issues, particularly greenhouse gas emissions. implications for biofuel are considered changing visions response indirect land-use change. Opposition third generation biofuels may be softened, but it more difficult justify cost holistic regulation