Livestock production and greenhouse gas emissions: Defining the problem and specifying solutions

Animal Frontiers

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-25

  Moran, Dominic ^a   Wall, Eileen ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global climate change; Greenhouse gas emissions; Life cycle analysis; Livestock; Production versus consumption accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893783956     PISSN: 21606056     EISSN: 21606064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/af.2011-0012     Document Type: Article

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