Global land use impacts on biomass production—a spatial-differentiated resource-related life cycle impact assessment method

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 440-450

  Alvarenga, Rodrigo A F ^a,b,c   Erb, Karl Heinz ^d   Haberl, Helmut ^d   Soares, Sebastião R ^a   van Zelm, Rosalie ^e   Dewulf, Jo ^b,f  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c SANTA CATARINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomass; Land use; LCA; Method; Resource

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUTECOLOGY; BIOMASS AVAILABILITY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROPLAND; ENDPOINT CHARACTERIZATION FACTOR; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; INFRASTRUCTURE; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MIDPOINT CHARACTERIZATION FACTOR; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PASTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SPECIES CULTIVATION; VEGETATION; WILDERNESS;

ALGAE;

EID: 84939415833     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-014-0843-x     Document Type: Article

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