Indirect land-use changes can overcome carbon savings from biofuels in Brazil.
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America • Feb 23, 2010
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David M Lapola
Ruediger Schaldach
Joseph Alcamo
Abstract
The planned expansion of biofuel plantations in Brazil could potentially cause both direct and indirect land-use changes (e.g., biofuel plantations replace rangelands, which replace forests). In this study, we use a spatially explicit model to project land-use changes caused by that expansion in 202...
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