Environmental indicators of biofuel sustainability: What about context?

Environmental Management

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 291-306

  Efroymson, Rebecca A ^a   Dale, Virginia H ^a   Kline, Keith L ^a   McBride, Allen C ^a   Bielicki, Jeffrey M ^b   Smith, Raymond L ^c   Parish, Esther S ^a   Schweizer, Peter E ^a   Shaw, Denice M ^d  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline conditions; Bioenergy; Natural variability; Spatial and temporal scales; Supply chain; Systems

Indexed keywords

BASE-LINE CONDITIONS; BIO-ENERGY; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; HISTORICAL DATA; NATURAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SPATIAL SCALE; STAKEHOLDER GROUPS; STAKEHOLDER VALUES; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS; SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES;

BIOFUELS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BIOFUEL; FOSSIL FUEL;

BIOENERGY; BIOFUEL; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS ENERGY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY CROP; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MANAGER; NONHUMAN; PERENNIAL PLANT; POLICY; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; RELIABILITY; SOIL QUALITY; VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

BIOFUELS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84874107540     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9907-5     Document Type: Article

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