Environmental comparison of intensive and integrated agriculture-aquaculture systems for striped catfish production in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, based on two existing case studies using life cycle assessment

Reviews in Aquaculture

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 195-208

  Kluts, Ingeborg N ^a   Potting, José ^a   Bosma, Roel H ^a   Phong, Le T ^b   Udo, Henk M J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CAN THO UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Integrated agriculture aquaculture; Intensive production; Life cycle assessment; Striped catfish

Indexed keywords

MYSTUS VITTATUS;

EID: 84872411981     PISSN: 17535123     EISSN: 17535131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-5131.2012.01072.x     Document Type: Article

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