Resetting global expectations from agricultural biofuels

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Johnston, Matt ^a   Foley, Jonathan A ^b   Holloway, Tracey ^a   Kucharik, Chris ^a   Monfreda, Chad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEEDSTOCKS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BIOFUEL FEEDSTOCKS; CENSUS DATA; RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY; YIELD ANALYSIS;

BIOFUELS;

EID: 61349135628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/1/014004     Document Type: Article

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