Modeling the land-use and greenhouse-gas implications of biofuels

Climate Change Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Khanna, Madhu ^a,b   Zilberman, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

biofuel policies; direct and indirect effects; general equilibrium; Partial equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889078506     PISSN: 20100078     EISSN: 20100086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S2010007812500169     Document Type: Article

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