Productivity ranges of sustainable biomass potentials from non-agricultural land

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Schueler, Vivian ^a   Fuss, Sabine ^a   Steckel, Jan Christoph ^a,b,c   Weddige, Ulf ^a   Beringer, Tim ^d  

^a MERCATOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON GLOBAL COMMONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; productivity; spatial analysis; sustainability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; PRODUCTIVITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; BIO-ENERGY; BIOENERGY POTENTIAL; BIOMASS FEEDSTOCK; NON-AGRICULTURAL LANDS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA; TRANSITION ECONOMY;

BIOMASS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BIOENERGY; CULTIVATION; DRY MATTER; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; OECD; PHYTOMASS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA; ASIA; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 84980351224     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/7/074026     Document Type: Article

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