Modeling bioenergy, land use, and ghg emissions with fasomghg: Model overview and analysis of storage cost implications

Climate Change Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Beach, Robert H ^a   Zhang, Yuquan W ^a   McCarl, Bruce A ^b  

^a Agricultural Resource and oEnergy Economics and Policy Program RTI International   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; bioenergy; biomass storage; FASOMGHG; forests; GHG mitigation; transportation costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889564683     PISSN: 20100078     EISSN: 20100086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S2010007812500121     Document Type: Article

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