Climate change effects of forestry and substitution of carbon-intensive materials and fossil fuels

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 67, Issue , 2017, Pages 612-624

  Gustavsson, Leif ^a   Haus, Sylvia ^a   Lundblad, Mattias ^b   Lundström, Anders ^b   Ortiz, Carina A ^b   Sathre, Roger ^a   Truong, Nguyen Le ^a   Wikberg, Per Erik ^b  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biomass residues; Climate change; Forest management; Radiative forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSIL FUELS; FUEL STORAGE; HARVESTING;

'CURRENT; BIOMASS RESIDUE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON EMISSIONS; CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE EFFECTS; FOREST PRODUCTION; FOREST RESIDUE; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; TECHNOLOGICAL COMPONENTS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84988361277     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2016.09.056     Document Type: Review

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