Meat and global warming: Impact models, mitigation approaches and ethical aspects

Environmental Values

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 437-457

  Nordgren, Anders ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ethics; Meat; Mitigation; Policy

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; ETHICS; GLOBAL WARMING; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MEAT; MITIGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84866755036     PISSN: 09632719     EISSN: 17527015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/096327112X13466893628067     Document Type: Article

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