The environmental cost of animal source foods

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 329-335

  Hilborn, Ray ^a   Banobi, Jeannette ^a   Hall, Stephen J ^b   Pucylowski, Teresa ^a   Walsworth, Timothy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Avalerion Capital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION; COST ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FISH CULTURE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC CULTURE; PELAGIC FISHERY; PESTICIDE APPLICATION;

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EID: 85051057313     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fee.1822     Document Type: Review

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