Comment on 'Water footprint of marine protein consumption - Aquaculture's link to agriculture'

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Troell, Max ^a,b   Metian, Marc ^b   Beveridge, Malcolm ^c   Verdegem, Marc ^d   Deutsch, Lisa ^b  

^a ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c WORLDFISH   (Malaysia)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aquaculture; freshwater; marine protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907898258     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/109001     Document Type: Note

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