Food consumption, diet shifts and associated non-CO2 greenhouse gases from agricultural production

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 451-462

  Popp, Alexander ^a   Lotze Campen, Hermann ^a   Bodirsky, Benjamin ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Food consumption; Greenhouse gas emissions; Mitigation; Spatially explicit simulation model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL EMISSION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CROP YIELD; DIEL VARIATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD PREFERENCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; MEAT; METHANE; MITIGATION; NITROUS OXIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

EID: 77954643194     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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