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It's not easy being green: Wind energy and a declining grassland bird

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2009

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Pruett, C.L., Patten, M.A., and Wolfe, D.H., 2009, It's not easy being green: Wind energy and a declining grassland bird: BioScience, v. 59, iss. 3, p. 257-262.

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Biofuels world production has increased sharply in recent years. Oil reserves depletion, the oil high price and the confidence in biofuels “carbon neutrality” are the main causes of this phenomenon. However, claims related to the negative consequences of biofuel programs are frequent; mainly those related to the biofuels/food competition and sustainability. This paper aims to contribute for the development of a framework for sustainability indicators as a tool for performance assessment. The most used indicators to measure the biofuels sustainability are: Life Cycle Energy Balance (LCEB), quantity of fossil energy substituted per hectare, co-product energy allocation, life cycle carbon balance and changes in soil utilization. On the [...]

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DOI WECC []
ISSN WECC 0006-3568 1525-3244

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