The bioenergy and water nexus

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 353-360

  Gheewala, Shabbir H ^a,b   Berndes, Göran ^c   Jewitt, Graham ^d  

^a KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^b Ministry of Education   (Thailand)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Assessment; Bioenergy; Impacts; Water

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; BIO-ENERGY; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; EFFECT OF WATER; IMPACTS; WATER SHORTAGES; WATER STRESS;

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; WATER SUPPLY;

GAS EMISSIONS;

EID: 79960370160     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: 19321031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.295     Document Type: Article

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