Indirect land use change: much ado about (almost) nothing

GCB Bioenergy

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 485-488

  Zilberman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIRECT LAND-USE CHANGES;

LAND USE;

LAND USE CHANGE;

EID: 84992735858     PISSN: 17571693     EISSN: 17571707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12368     Document Type: Editorial

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