Life Cycle Assessment of pork production: A data inventory for the case of Germany

Livestock Science

Volumn 157, Issue 2-3, 2013, Pages 586-596

  Reckmann, K ^a   Traulsen, I ^a   Krieter, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Germany; Life Cycle Assessment; Pork; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE;

EID: 84886723774     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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