Assessing the consequences of policy measures on long-term agricultural productivity – Quantification for Flanders

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 246, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Boone, Lieselot ^a,b   Dewulf, Jo ^a   Ruysschaert, Greet ^b   D'Hose, Tommy ^b   Muylle, Hilde ^b   Roldán Ruiz, Isabel ^a,b   Van linden, Veerle ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Land use; Life cycle assessment; Policy; Productivity; Soil organic carbon

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPOSTING; FERTILIZERS; LAND USE; ORGANIC CARBON; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLIC POLICY;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY; AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES; COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY; FARM MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE IMPACT ASSESSMENT; RESOURCE PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 85075364647     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119000     Document Type: Article

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