Using a Strategic Environmental Assessment framework to quantify the environmental impact of bioenergy plans

GCB Bioenergy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 311-329

  Finnan, John ^a   Styles, David ^b   Fitzgerald, Joanne ^a   Connolly, John ^c   Donnelly, Alison ^d  

^a TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Miscanthus; Olive cake; Palm kernel; Peat; Strategic environmental assessment; Willow

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LIFE CYCLE; PEAT; PELLETIZING; REGIONAL PLANNING;

MISCANTHUS; OLIVE CAKE; PALM KERNEL; STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS; WILLOW;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

MISCANTHUS; SALIX;

EID: 84866608820     PISSN: 17571693     EISSN: 17571707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2011.01143.x     Document Type: Article

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