Life Cycle Assessment from food to food: A case study of circular economy from cruise ships to aquaculture

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 40-51

  Strazza, C ^a   Magrassi, F ^a   Gallo, M ^a   Del Borghi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Cradle to cradle; Feed; Industrial ecology; Waste; Water footprint

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949634701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23525509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2015.06.004     Document Type: Article

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