Biofuels: Policies and impacts

Agricultural Economics (Czech Republic)

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 372-386

  Janda, Karel ^a,b,c,d   Kristoufek, Ladislav ^b,e   Zilberman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Czech Republic)

^d CERGE EI   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Biofuels; Ethanol

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865362517     PISSN: 0139570X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/124/2011-agricecon     Document Type: Review

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