Organic and sustainable agriculture and energy conservation

Biofuels, Solar and Wind as Renewable Energy Systems: Benefits and Risks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 425-464

  Gomiero, Tiziano ^a   Paoletti, Maurizio G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

biodiversity; conventional agriculture; energy use; GHGs emissions; organic agriculture; soil ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885963198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8654-0_17     Document Type: Chapter

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