The role of irrigation in determining the global land use impacts of biofuels

Energy, Sustainability and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-18

  Taheripour, Farzad ^a   Hertel, Thomas W ^a   Liu, Jing ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational general equilibrium; GTAP BIO; Indirect land use change; Irrigated agriculture; Irrigation constraints; Rainfed agriculture

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; CARBON; CROPS; CULTIVATION; FORESTRY; IRRIGATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM; GTAP-BIO; INDIRECT LAND-USE CHANGES; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; RAIN FED AGRICULTURE;

LAND USE;

BIOFUEL; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; CROP PRODUCTION; IRRIGATION; LAND USE CHANGE; RAINFED AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84881112225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21920567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2192-0567-3-4     Document Type: Article

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