The effects of policy incentives in the adoption of willow short rotation coppice for bioenergy in Sweden

Energy Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3052-3058

  Mola Yudego, Blas ^a   Pelkonen, Paavo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adoption models; Bioenergy policy; Energy plantations

Indexed keywords

EID: 46049112000     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.03.036     Document Type: Article

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