Space for innovation for sustainable community-based biofuel production and use: Lessons learned for policy from Nhambita community, Mozambique

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 5116-5128

  Schut, Marc ^a   van Paassen, Annemarie ^a   Leeuwis, Cees ^a   Bos, Sandra ^b   Leonardo, Wilson ^a   Lerner, Anna ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FACT Foundation   (Netherlands)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Jatropha; Mozambique

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CROP FAILURES; DIFFERENT SCALE; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; JATROPHA; LEVELS OF ANALYSIS; LOCAL SPACES; MOZAMBIQUE; SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BIOFUELS;

BIOFUEL; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; INNOVATION; PLANT; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SMALLHOLDER; STATE ROLE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

MOZAMBIQUE;

JATROPHA;

EID: 79960742124     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.05.053     Document Type: Article

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