Opportunities and Challenges in the Design and Analysis of Biomass Supply Chains.
The biomass supply chain is one of the most critical elements of large-scale bioenergy production and in many cases a key barrier for procuring initial funding for new developments on specific energy crops. Most productions rely on complex transforming chains linked to feed and food markets. The ter...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 56; no. 6; pp. 1397 - 1416 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2015
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