Does growing grain legumes or applying lime cost effectively lower greenhouse gas emissions from wheat production in a semi-arid climate?

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 194-203

  Barton, Louise ^a   Thamo, Tas ^a   Engelbrecht, Deborah ^b   Biswas, Wahidul K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Economic analysis; Grain production; Greenhouse gas emissions; Nitrous oxide; Streamline life cycle assessment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GREENHOUSE GASES; LIME; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN OXIDES;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIONS; GRAIN PRODUCTION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT ANALYSIS; NITROUS OXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84908239322     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.07.020     Document Type: Article

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