Reply to Pfister and Hellweg: Water footprint accounting, impact assessment, and life-cycle assessment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 40, 2009, Pages

  Hoekstra, Arjen Y ^a   Gerbens Leenes, Winnie ^a   Van Der Meer, Theo H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

BIOENERGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LETTER; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WATER FLOW; WATER STRESS; WATER SUPPLY;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ETHANOL; HOT TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 70350135456     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909948106     Document Type: Letter

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