Modeling biofuel expansion effects on land use change dynamics

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Warner, Ethan ^a   Inman, Daniel ^a   Kunstman, Benjamin ^a   Bush, Brian ^a   Vimmerstedt, Laura ^a   Peterson, Steve ^b,c,d   Macknick, Jordan ^a   Zhang, Yimin ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Peterson Group   (United States)

^c Lexidyne LLC   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; biofuel; diet; land use; sustainability; system dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CROPS; LAND USE; NUTRITION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM THEORY;

DYNAMIC INTERACTION; FOREST AND GRASSLAND; INDIRECT LAND-USE CHANGES; LAND-USE CHANGE DYNAMICS; MODELING APPROACH; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; TRANSPORTATION FUELS;

BIOFUELS;

BIOFUEL; DIET; ENERGY POLICY; FOOD SUPPLY; GRASSLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; MEAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASTURE; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84876189054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015003     Document Type: Article

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