The land footprint of the EU bioeconomy: Monitoring tools, gaps and needs

Land Use Policy

Volumn 47, Issue , 2015, Pages 235-246

  O'Brien, Meghan ^a   Schütz, Helmut ^a   Bringezu, Stefan ^a  

^a Institute for Ecological Economy Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioeconomy; Consumption; Global land use accounting; Land footprints; Land use targets; Safe operating space

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOFUEL; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; EUROPEAN UNION; LAND USE PLANNING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84928658865     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.04.012     Document Type: Article

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