Biofuels and land use change: Applying recent evidence to model estimates

Applied Sciences (Switzerland)

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-38

  Taheripour, Farzad ^a   Tyner, Wallace E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; General equilibrium; Land transformation elasticity; Land use changes; Nesting structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891921650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/app3010014     Document Type: Article

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