Corn ethanol growth in the USA without adverse foreign land-use change: Defining limits and devising policies

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 296-309

  Gallagher, Paul W ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn yield response; Land use change; Renewable fuel standard; US ethanol industry

Indexed keywords

CORN YIELDS; ETHANOL INDUSTRY; LAND-USE CHANGE; RENEWABLE FUEL STANDARD; RENEWABLE FUELS;

ETHANOL; FUELS; LAND USE; STANDARDS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 77952749208     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: 19321031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.214     Document Type: Article

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