Environmental performance and biophysical constrains of Italian agriculture across time and space scales

Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-83

  Zucaro, Amalia ^a   Mellino, Salvatore ^a   Ghisellini, Patrizia ^b   Viglia, Silvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agricultural trends; Emergy; Environmental performance; Scenario Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966527773     PISSN: 23256192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5890/JEAM.2012.01.006     Document Type: Article

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