BioEnerGIS intends to provide an instrument helping decision makers to plan, on a regional scale, a sustainable exploitation of biomass. A GIS-based decision support system (DSS) will be developed, locating the most suitable sites for biomass plants installation, in terms of energetic, environmental and economic sustainability. Four regional case study areas, representing different environmental and economics zones, have been identified: Lombardia, Walloon, Slovenia and North Ireland.

The general outline of the project embraces four sequential steps:

GIS-based analysis aimed at mapping, for each study area:

• the biomass potentially exploitable for energetic purposes, with estimation of the overall and the economic potentials as well as the rate of biogenic materials without a well-established market destination;

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