Development of a life cycle assessment tool for the assessment of food production systems within the energy, water and food nexus

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 52-66

  Al Ansari, Tareq ^a   Korre, Anna ^a   Nie, Zhenggang ^a   Shah, Nilay ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy, water and food; Resource efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949639209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23525509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2015.07.005     Document Type: Article

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