Stakeholders on Meat Production, Meat Consumption and Mitigation of Climate Change: Sweden as a Case

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 663-678

  Lerner, Henrik ^a   Algers, Bo ^a   Gunnarsson, Stefan ^a   Nordgren, Anders ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Meat consumption; Meat production; Mitigation; Stakeholders; Sweden

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GREENHOUSE GAS; MEAT; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PROTEIN; STAKEHOLDER;

SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84878633611     PISSN: 11877863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10806-012-9420-0     Document Type: Article

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