Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- OPENING SESSION -- The energy from biomass programme of the Commission of the European Communities -- La biomasse dans la competition energetique -- Biomass fuels in a European context -- The Italian biomass scene -- Avenir de l'agriculture europeenne et valorisation de la biomasse -- The common agricultural policy and biomass energy -- Kurzfristige verfugbarkeit von forstlicher biomasse in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland -- La biomasse, source de substituts au petrole dans le secteur des transports -- SESSION I: THE EUROPEAN SCENE -- Trees and wood as an energy source in the Nordic countries -- Biomass availability and use in the industrial regions of the EC -- Ressources en biomasses utilisables a des fins energetiques en milieu agricola - cas de l'europe des 10 -- Biomass for heating and fuels in Austria: a case study for Europe? -- SESSION II: TECHNICAL SESSIONS -- Zur agrarpolitischen bedeutung der ethanolproduktion in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland -- The use of forests as a source of biomass energy -- The availability of wastes and residues as a source of energy -- The potential of natural vegetation as a source of biomass energy -- Photobiology - the scientific basis of biological energy conversion -- The biomass to synthesis gas pilot plant programme of the CEC -- a first evaluaton of its results -- Biomethanation, the paradox of a mature technology -- Novel methods and new feedstocks for alcohol from biomass -- Use of algal systems as a source of fuel and chemicals -- SESSION III: IMPLEMENTATION -- L E B E N - Large European bioenergy project -- The production and use of fuel alcohol in Zimbabwe -- Canada's energy from the forest programme -- Integrated food-energy production systems -- The use of wastes as a source of energy in the UK. , The Southern US biomass energy programs with emphasis on Florida -- Biomass energy utilisaton and its technologies in China rural areas -- Summaries of ROUND TABLES -- A. Research needs and resources for the development of biomass energy -- B. Land use, food and fuel production -- C. Development and environmental issues -- D. Institutional aspects of biomass production and -- Summaries of WORKSHOPS -- I Biomass resources -- II Biological conversion -- III Research priorities in thermal conversion technology -- IV Combustion and densification -- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS -- I. RESOURCES -- (a) Trees -- Biomass from short rotation coppice willow in Northern Ireland -- Biomass gains in coppicing trees for energy crops -- Short rotation coppice forest biomass production - the work of the IUFRO S1.05-10 working party -- Short rotation forestry for energy production -- Une plante energetique a cycle courte: le genet Cytisus scoparius -- Energy and biomass of piedmont hardwoods -- Coppiced trees as energy crops -- FAO's activities on industrial wood-based energy -- Energy forestry research in Britain -- Forest biomass: INRA's programme -- Euphorbia project: renewable energy production through the cultivation and processing of semi-arid land biomass in Kenya -- Potentialites de production d'un couvert vegetal -- Productivite de roseau phragmites -- Comparative biomass yields of energy crops -- Onopordum nervosum Boiss as a potential energy crop -- Straw as a biomass resource and its acquisition in the United Kingdom -- Studies about the potential of sweet sorghum and Jerusalem artichoke for ethanol production based on fermentable sugar -- The potential for straw as a fuel in the UK -- Immediately available liquid fuel crops in the EEC -- Energetic outlets of agriculture in the EEC. , The development of wetland energy crops in M1nnesota, USA - managing stands for continued productivity -- Energy from agriculture - some results of Swedish energy cropping experiments -- Epuration des eaux et produits de haute valeur tires de la jacinthe d'eau -- An integrated system: mass algae culture in polluted luke-warm water for production of methane, high value products and animal feed -- Properties of algal biomass production and the parameters determining its fermentative degradation -- Potentialites de production de biomasse aquatique dans les lagunes d'epuration -- Production of algal biomass in Venice lagoon: environmental and energetic aspects -- Hydrogen production, ammonia production and nitrogen fixation by free and immobilised cyanobacteria -- Effect of different factors on the productivity of nitrogen fixing blue-green alga Anabaena variabilis under outdoor conditions -- An energy budget for algal culture on animal slurry in temperate climatic conditions -- Photosynthetic basis of biomass production by water hyacinth grown under high C02 level -- Eichhornia crassipes: production in repeated harvest systems on waste water in the Languedoc Region (France) -- The effect of nutrient application on plant and soil nutrient content in relation to biomass harvesting -- HCQi uptake through the roots in willow and sunflower and effect of HCOj uptake of willow cuttings.