Potential land use implications of a global biofuels industry

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Gurgel, Angelo ^a   Reilly, John M ^a   Paltsev, Sergey ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Climate change; Computable general equilibrium modeling; Land use change

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849041247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1202     Document Type: Article

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