Biofuels and the need for additional carbon

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Searchinger, Timothy D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Climate change; Land use change

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BIOENERGY POTENTIAL; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; EMISSION REDUCTION; GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTIONS; INDIRECT EFFECTS; LAND-USE CHANGE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH;

BIOFUELS;

EID: 78149283605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/2/024007     Document Type: Article

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