An approach to computing marginal land use change carbon intensities for bioenergy in policy applications

Energy Economics

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 337-347

  Wise, Marshall ^a   Hodson, Elke L ^b   Mignone, Bryan K ^b   Clarke, Leon ^a   Waldhoff, Stephanie ^a   Luckow, Patrick ^a,c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^c Synapse Energy Economics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy crops; Carbon intensity; Integrated assessment modeling; Land use change

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; CROPS; FORESTRY; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES;

BIOENERGY CROPS; BIOENERGY PRODUCTIONS; CARBON INTENSITY; COAL-FIRED ELECTRICITY; DIFFERENT ENERGY SOURCES; GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; LAND-USE CHANGE;

LAND USE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOENERGY; CARBON EMISSION; CROP PRODUCTION; ENERGY CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LAND USE CHANGE; MODELING;

CARBON; EMISSION; FUELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; NATURAL GAS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84936157168     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2015.05.009     Document Type: Article

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