Agro-energy supply chain planning: A procedure to evaluate economic, energy and environmental sustainability

Italian Journal of Agronomy

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 221-228

  Ginaldi, Fabrizio ^a   Danuso, Francesco ^a   Rosa, Franco ^a   Rocca, Alvaro ^a   Bashanova, Oxana ^a   Sossai, Emiliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Composite index; Land evaluation; Logistic optimization; Modeling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; ALGORITHM; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS POWER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP YIELD; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY CROP; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EUROPEAN UNION; LAND EVALUATION; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TERRITORY;

FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA; ITALY;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84864608673     PISSN: 11254718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/ija.2012.e31     Document Type: Article

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