Biofuels Investments in Tanzania: Policy Options for Sustainable Business Models

Journal of Environment and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 339-361

  Hultman, Nathan E ^a,b   Sulle, Emmanuel B ^a   Ramig, Christopher W ^a   Sykora Bodie, Seth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Joint Global Change Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

biofuels policy; business models; energy transitions; jatropha; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL; ENERGY POLICY; INVESTMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; STAKEHOLDER;

BRAZIL; TANZANIA;

EID: 84865065359     PISSN: 10704965     EISSN: 15525465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1070496511435665     Document Type: Article

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