Impacts of biofuels on climate change, water use, and land use

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1195, Issue , 2010, Pages 28-45

  Delucchi, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Climate change; Eutrophication; Land use; Life cycle analysis; Water use

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL; FOSSIL FUEL; GROUND WATER; NITROGEN; PETROLEUM;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUTROPHICATION; FLUID INTAKE; LAND USE; METRIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PLANT WATER USE; POLICY; REVIEW; SOIL EROSION; STRESS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77952004018     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05457.x     Document Type: Review

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