EMERGING ROLE OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS), LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA) AND SPATIAL LCA (GIS-LCA) IN SUSTAINABLE BIOENERGY PLANNING

Moonmoon Hiloidhari^a D.C. Baruah^bb Anoop Singh^c Sampriti Kataki^b Kristina Medhi^a Shilpi Kumari^d T.V Ramachandra^e B.M Jenkins^f Indu Shekhar Thakur^a

^aSchool of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India,
^bDepartment of Energy, Tezpur University, Tezpur 784028, Assam, India ^cDepartment of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi 110016, India
^dCentre for Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110016, India
^eeEnergy and Wetland Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
^fDepartment of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California Davis, California 95616, USA
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