Water footprint accounting and scarcity indicators of conventional and organic dairy production systems

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 299-307

  Palhares, Julio Cesar Pascale ^a   Pezzopane, Jose Ricardo Macedo ^a  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blue; Effluent; Green; Nitrate; Phosphorus

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DAIRIES; NITRATES; PHOSPHORUS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

ANIMAL AGRICULTURE; BLUE; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GREEN; ORGANIC PRODUCTION SYSTEM; SCARCITY INDICATORS; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

EFFLUENTS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84926196906     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.01.035     Document Type: Article

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