Chinas waterenergy nexus: Greenhouse-gas emissions from groundwater use for agriculture

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Jinxia ^a   Rothausen, Sabrina G S A ^b   Conway, Declan ^b   Zhang, Lijuan ^a   Xiong, Wei ^c   Holman, Ian P ^d   Li, Yumin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; climate change; emissions; energy; irrigation; water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859366495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/014035     Document Type: Article

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