A comparative study on carbon footprint of rice production between household and aggregated farms from Jiangxi, China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 187, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1-13

  Yan, Ming ^a   Luo, Ting ^a   Bian, Rongjun ^a   Cheng, Kun ^a   Pan, Genxing ^a,b,c   Rees, Robert ^c  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregated farm; Carbon footprint; Climate change mitigation; Greenhouse gas; Rice cropping system

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; EMISSION CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CROP PRODUCTION; FARMING MANAGEMENT; GRAIN PRODUCTION; METHANE EMISSIONS; RICE CROPPING SYSTEMS; RICE CULTIVATION;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

METHANE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZER; FERTILIZER;

CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; FARMING SYSTEM; GREENHOUSE GAS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MITIGATION; RICE;

AGGREGATED FARM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROPPING SYSTEM; FARMING SYSTEM; HOUSEHOLD FARM; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; RICE; SEED PRODUCTION; TILLAGE; AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHINA; JIANGXI;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FERTILIZERS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; METHANE; NITROGEN; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 84928891498     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-4572-9     Document Type: Article

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