Acute view transport biofuels: Can they help limiting climate change without an upward impact on food prices?

Journal fur Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-78

  Reijnders, Lucas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Food prices; Greenhouse gas emission; Transport biofuel

Indexed keywords

EID: 60649092116     PISSN: 16615751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00003-009-0386-4     Document Type: Article

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