Potential environmental and population health impacts of local urban food systems under climate change: A life cycle analysis case study of lettuce and chicken

Agriculture and Food Security

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hall, Gillian ^a,b   Rothwell, Alison ^c   Grant, Tim ^d   Isaacs, Bronwyn ^a   Ford, Laura ^a   Dixon, Jane ^a   Kirk, Martyn ^a   Friel, Sharon ^a  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Life Cycle Strategies   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Life cycle assessment; Scale of food production; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85005987276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20487010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2048-7010-3-6     Document Type: Article

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