The environmental and socio-economic impacts of bio-ethanol production in Thailand

Energy Procedia

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages 35-43

  Silalertruksa, Thapat ^a,b   Gheewala, Shabbir H ^a,b  

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

^b Ministry of Education   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Bio ethanol; Employment; GHGs; Input Output analysis; Socio economic

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555197127     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.09.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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