Life Cycle Assessment modeling of milk production in Iran

Information Processing in Agriculture

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 101-108

  Soltanali, Hamzeh ^a   Emadi, Bagher ^a   Rohani, Abbas ^a   Khojastehpour, Mehdi ^a   Nikkhah, Amin ^a,b  

^a FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acidification; Dairy farm; Environmental impact; Global warming

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL WARMING; SURVEYS;

DAIRY FARMS; ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDEX; GLOBAL WARMING IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT MODEL; PHOTOCHEMICAL OXIDATION; RESOURCES DEPLETION;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 85016966918     PISSN: 22143173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inpa.2015.06.003     Document Type: Article

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