Life cycle assessment based evaluation of regional impacts from agricultural production at the Peruvian coast

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 9872-9880

  Bartl, Karin ^a   Verones, Francesca ^a   Hellweg, Stefanie ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; BIODIVERSITY LOSS; BUSINESS-AS-USUAL; CROP COMBINATIONS; CROP CULTIVATION; CURRENT TRENDS; DECISION SUPPORTS; DRIP IRRIGATION; HUMAN TOXICITY; HUMAN TOXICITY POTENTIALS; IRRIGATION SYSTEMS; IRRIGATION WATER USE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY; NITRATE LEACHING; REGIONAL IMPACTS; TECHNOLOGY CHOICES; WATER USE;

BIODIVERSITY; CROPS; CULTIVATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; GROUNDWATER; IRRIGATION; LEACHING; WATER SUPPLY;

LIFE CYCLE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FUEL; GROUND WATER; PESTICIDE; WATER;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRIP IRRIGATION; HABITAT LOSS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; RANGE EXPANSION;

ACIDIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; APPLE; ARTICLE; ASPARAGUS; AVOCADO; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP; ELECTRICITY; EUTROPHICATION; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MAIZE; MANDARIN; NITRATE LEACHING; NONHUMAN; PEACH; PERU; POTATO; STRAWBERRY; WETLAND;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; EUTROPHICATION; HUMANS; PERU;

PERU;

EID: 84866361893     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301644y     Document Type: Article

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