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| Mogensen, Lisbeth; Hermansen, John E.; Halberg, Niels; Dalgaard, Randi; Vis, J.C.; Smith, B. Gail. |
| The environmental impact is one of the major pillars of concerns when addressing the sustainability of food production and sustainable food consumption strategies. To assess to what extent food production affects the environment, one needs to choose a proper environmental assessment tool. Different types of assessment tools have been developed to establish environmental indicators, which can be used to determine the environmental impact of livestock production systems or agricultural products. The environmen¬tal assessment tools can be divided into the area based or product based (Halberg et al., 2005). Area-based indicators are, for example, nitrate leached per hectare from a pig farm, and product-based indicators are, for example, global warming... |
| Tipo: Book chapter |
Palavras-chave: Farming Systems. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/15610/1/15610.pdf |
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