A practical comparison of regionalized land use and biodiversity life cycle impact assessment models using livestock production as a case study

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2018, Pages

  Teixeira, Ricardo F M ^a   Morais, Tiago G ^a   Domingos, Tiago ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Grazing; Industrial ecology; Life Cycle Impact Assessment; Livestock production; Regionalization; Spatial correlation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; DIFFERENTIATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; LAND USE CHANGE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; LIVESTOCK FARMING; OVERGRAZING; REGIONALIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

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EID: 85054924836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su10114089     Document Type: Article

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