The adoption of short-rotation energy cropping as a new land use option in the New South Wales Central West

Rural Society

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 266-279

  Baumber, Alex ^a   Merson, John ^a   Ampt, Peter ^b   Diesendorf, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Bioenergy; Mallee; Revegetation; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864790372     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.20.3.266     Document Type: Article

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