RELCA: a REgional Life Cycle inventory for Assessing bioenergy systems within a region

Energy, Sustainability and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  O’Keeffe, Sinéad ^a   Wochele Marx, Sandra ^a   Thrän, Daniela ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b DBFZ DEUTSCHES BIOMASSEFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM GEMEINNÜTZIGE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; GHG; LCA; Life cycle inventory; Regional; Spatial assessment

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CATCHMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE GASES; PLANTS (BOTANY); RUNOFF;

BIO-ENERGY; CATCHMENT DELINEATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; GREENHOUSE GASES EMISSIONS; LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY; REGIONAL; SPATIAL ASSESSMENT;

LIFE CYCLE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOENERGY; BIOMASS POWER; DECENTRALIZATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; INVENTORY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL PLANNING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

GERMANY;

EID: 84971268786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21920567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13705-016-0078-8     Document Type: Article

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