Sustainable biomass production for energy in India

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 501-515

  Sudha, P ^a   Somashekhar, H I ^a   Rao, Sandhya ^b   Ravindranath, N H ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Barriers; Bioenergy; Biomass; Biomass productivity; India; Land

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENTS; LAND USE; VEGETATION;

FUEL WOOD;

BIOMASS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; BIOMASS POWER; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FUELWOOD;

INDIA;

EID: 0141504170     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0961-9534(03)00087-4     Document Type: Article

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