A step toward regionalized scale-consistent agricultural life cycle assessment inventories

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 939-951

  Morais, Tiago G ^a   Teixeira, Ricardo FM ^a   Domingos, Tiago ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Agri food sector; Data management; Portugal; Product comparison; Spatial differentiation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 85027699829     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.1889     Document Type: Article

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