Energy requirement of extra virgin olive oil production

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4966-4974

  Cappelletti, Giulio Mario ^a   Ioppolo, Giuseppe ^b   Nicoletti, Giuseppe Martino ^a   Russo, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy demand; Life cycle thinking; Net energy; Olive oil chain

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; ENERGY USE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ESSENTIAL OIL; LIFE CYCLE; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; OIL PRODUCTION; PRUNING;

EID: 84906228621     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6084966     Document Type: Article

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