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| Tekijä: | Werf van der, H. M. G.(et al.) |
| Otsikko: | An operational method for the evaluation of resource use and environmental impacts of dairy farms by life cycle assessment |
| Lehti: | Journal of Environmental Management
2009 : AUG, VOL. 90:11, p. 3643-3652 |
| Asiasana: | dairy industry farms milk industry environmental protection inventory control impact assessment resource management life cycles |
| Vapaa asiasana: | conventional organic impact variability |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This article described and applied EDEN-E, an operational method for the environmental evaluation of dairy farms based on the life cycle assessment (LCA) conceptual framework. It is used to evaluated a group of 47 dairy farms (41 conventional and six organic). The author argued per 1000 kg of fat-and-protein-corrected milk, total land occupation was significantly larger for organic than for conventional farms, while total impacts for eutrophication, acidification, climate change, terrestrial toxicity, and non-renewable energy use were not significantly different for the two production modes. It is found that for the set of farms examined, the contribution of production mode to overall inter-farm variability of impacts was minor relative to inter-farm variability within each of the two production modes examined. The mapping of impact variability through EDEN-E opens promising perspectives to move towards sustainable farming systems by identifying the structural and management characteristics of the farms presenting the lowest impacts. |
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