Comparing direct land use impacts on biodiversity of conventional and organic milk - Based on a Swedish case study

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-68

  Mueller, Carina ^a   De Baan, Laura ^b   Koellner, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Land use; Life cycle impact assessment; Milk; Organic agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893785552     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-013-0638-5     Document Type: Article

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