Ethanol Production, Food and Forests

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-21

  Andrade de Sá, Saraly ^a   Palmer, Charles ^b   Engel, Stefanie ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Ethanol; Food; Indirect impacts; Land use; Migration

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CROPS; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMICS; FOOD PRODUCTS; FORESTRY; LAND USE;

DIRECT AND INDIRECT IMPACTS; ETHANOL PRODUCTION; INDIRECT IMPACTS; INPUT ALLOCATIONS; LABOR MOBILITIES; MIGRATION; NATIONAL ECONOMY; PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL;

ETHANOL;

DECOMPOSITION; DEFORESTATION; ENERGY CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ETHANOL; FOOD PRODUCTION; LABOR MOBILITY; LAND USE CHANGE; NATIONAL ECONOMY;

DEFORESTATION; ECONOMICS; ETHANOL; FARM CROPS; FOOD; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRICES;

EID: 82455208992     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-011-9516-4     Document Type: Article

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