The macro-environment for liquid biofuels in German science, mass media and government

Review of European Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 33-47

  Talamini, Edson ^a   Wubben, Emiel F M ^b   Dewes, Homero ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Bioenergy; Ethanol; Macro environmental scanning; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877918486     PISSN: 19187173     EISSN: 19187181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/res.v5n2p33     Document Type: Article

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