Assessment of environmental and economic impacts of vine-growing combining life cycle assessment, life cycle costing and multicriterial analysis

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Falcone, Giacomo ^a   De Luca, Anna Irene ^a   Stillitano, Teodora ^a   Strano, Alfio ^a   Romeo, Giuseppa ^a   Gulisano, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental and economic sustainability; LCA; LCC; Multicriteria analysis; VIKOR technique; Wine growing systems

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COST ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MARKET CONDITIONS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SUSTAINABILITY; VINE; WINE INDUSTRY;

CALABRIA; ITALY;

EID: 84983748553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8080793     Document Type: Article

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