Towards sustainable biofuel development: Assessing the local impacts of large-scale foreign land acquisitions in Ghana
This paper reviews oil palm biofuel development and analyzes social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations in Indonesia. Three plantation study sites were selected in West Papua (Manokwari), West Kalimantan (Kubu Raya) and Papua (Boven Digoel) and used as case studies to illustrate likely...
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| Format: | Artículo preliminar |
| Language: | Inglés |
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2010
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/20924 |
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