Targets and mandates: Lessons learned from EU and US biofuels policy mechanisms

AgBioForum

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 398-412

  Ziolkowska, Jadwiga ^a   Meyers, William H ^b   Meyer, Seth ^b   Binfield, Julian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI)   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Climate change; Common agricultural policy; EU targets; US mandates

Indexed keywords

EID: 79851493448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1522936X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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