Environmental life cycle assessment of Ethiopian rose cultivation

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 443, Issue , 2013, Pages 163-172

  Sahle, Abiy ^a   Potting, José ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Environmental impact category; Impact assessment; Inventory analysis; Life cycle assessment; Rose cultivation

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC DEPLETION; CALCIUM NITRATE; DATA POINTS; ECOINVENT; ECOTOXICITY; EMISSION FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; ETHIOPIA; FOCUS POINTS; FRESH WATER; HIGH QUALITY; HUMAN TOXICITY; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INVENTORY ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE INVENTORIES; NITROGEN-BASED FERTILIZERS; NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT; OZONE DEPLETION; PHOTOCHEMICAL OXIDATION; PRIMARY DATA;

ACIDIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSES; INSECTICIDES; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; OZONE LAYER; TOXICITY; WATER;

LIFE CYCLE;

AIRPORT; CALCIUM; CULTIVATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FERTILIZER; FLOWER; INSECTICIDE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NITRATE; OXIDATION;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ETHIOPIA; EUTROPHICATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT; OZONE DEPLETION; PHOTOOXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; ROSE; TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; ETHIOPIA; EUTROPHICATION; FERTILIZERS; PESTICIDES; ROSA;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84869878199     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.048     Document Type: Article

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