The impact of field size on the environment and energy crop production efficiency for a sustainable indigenous bioenergy supply chain in the Republic of Ireland

Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 994-1011

  Deverell, Rory ^a   McDonnell, Kevin ^a   Devlin, Ger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Carbon; Economics; Habitats

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955967252     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su1040994     Document Type: Article

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