Response to comment on "Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States"

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3984-

  Weber, Christopher L ^a   Matthews, H Scott ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PREFERENCE; GREENHOUSE GAS; LETTER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66249114969     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901016m     Document Type: Letter

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