Intentions of UK farmers toward biofuel crop production: Implications for policy targets and land use change

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 5589-5594

  Mattison, Elizabeth H A ^a   Norris, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; FOSSIL FUELS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PUBLIC POLICY; RAW MATERIALS;

BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; INTERNATIONAL BARRIERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BIOFUEL; FOSSIL FUEL;

BIOFUELS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FOSSIL FUELS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PUBLIC POLICY; RAW MATERIALS;

BIOFUEL; CARBON EMISSION; CROP PRODUCTION; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CROP PRODUCTION; EUROPEAN UNION; LAND USE; POLICY; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGRICULTURE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BRASSICA RAPA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GASOLINE; INTENTION; PUBLIC POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SACCHARUM; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548067129     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es062211v     Document Type: Article

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