Wouter Achten, Msc
PhD Student at K.U.Leuven: download full CV at , academia.eduLeuven, Belgium
Research field: Environmental Sciences
Biofuels, Life cycle assessment, land use impact, tropics
Publications
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Conference Proceedings (2)
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Wouter MJ Achten, Erik Mathijs, Bart Muys (2009) Proposing a life cycle land use impact calculation methodology, 22-33. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on LCA in the Agri-Food Sector - Towards a sustainable management of the Food chain.
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Wouter MJ Achten, Bert Reubens, Wouter H Maes et al. (2007) Root architecture of the promising bio-diesel plant Jatropha, 81-85. In Communication in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences.
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Journal Article (9)
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Wouter MJ Achten, Lene R Nielsen, Raf Aerts et al. (2010) Towards domestication of Jatropha curcas: a review, 91-107. In Biofuels 1 (1).
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Wouter H Maes, Antonio Trabucco, Wouter MJ Achten et al. (2009) Climatic growing conditions of Jatropha curcas L., 1481-1485. In Biomass & Bioenergy 33 (10).
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Wouter MJ Achten, Wouter H Maes, Raf Aerts et al. (2009) Jatropha: from global hype to local opportunity. In Journal of Arid Environments.
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Wouter H Maes, Wouter MJ Achten, Bert Reubens et al. (2009) Plant-water relationships and growth strategies of Jatropha curcas L. seedlings under different levels of drought stress, 877-884. In Journal of Arid Environments.
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Wouter H Maes, Wouter MJ Achten, Bart Muys (2009) Use of inadequate data and methodological errors lead to an overestimation of the water footprint of Jatropha curcas, E91. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA 106 (34).
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Wouter MJ Achten, Stefaan Dondeyne, S Mugogo et al. (2008) Gully erosion in South Eastern Tanzania: spatial distribution and topographic thresholds, 225-235. In Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie.
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Wouter MJ Achten, Louis Verchot, Ywe Jan Franken et al. (2008) Jatropha bio-diesel production and use, 1063-1084. In Biomass & Bioenergy 32 (12).
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Wouter MJ Achten (2008) Science journals have been slow to make themselves audible, 590. In Nature.
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Wouter MJ Achten, Erik Mathijs, Louis Verchot et al. (2007) Jatropha biodiesel fueling sustainability?, 283-291. In Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 1 (4).
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Awards and Grants
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Jul 2009Travel Grant - Academische stichting Leuven View website
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Oct 2006VLIR VLADOC PhD Scholarship View website
Biographical Information
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.
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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