Bioenergy and Its Environmental Impacts
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1Guangdong Institute of Eco-Environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China 2School of The Environment, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang 212013, China 3School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 4School of Environment & Energy, Peking University, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518055, China
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دوره 2015 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2015