Joint Life Cycle Assessment and Data Envelopment Analysis for the benchmarking of environmental impacts in rice paddy production

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 106, Issue , 2015, Pages 521-532

  Mohammadi, Ali ^a,b   Rafiee, Shahin ^a   Jafari, Ali ^a   Keyhani, Alireza ^a   Dalgaard, Tommy ^b   Knudsen, Marie Trydeman ^b   Nguyen, Thu Lan T ^b   Borek, Robert ^c   Hermansen, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Economic savings; Growing season; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Rice paddy; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

ECONOMIC SAVINGS; GROWING SEASON; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); RICE PADDY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84938202223     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.05.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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