Emerging scarcities: Bioenergy-food competition in a carbon constrained world

Scarcity and Growth Revisited: Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millennium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 98-120

  Azar, Christian ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84920800674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781936331499     Document Type: Chapter

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