Comparing environmental impacts of beef production systems: a review of life cycle assessments
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Previous beef life cycle assessment studies modeled grass-fed or grass-finished systems using simplified grazing parameters typically representative of continuous grazing and assumed steady-state soil carbon.
“These studies evaluated only one grazing management system continuous grazingand assumed steady-state soil carbon (C), to model the grass-finishing environmental impact.”
From Impacts of soil carbon sequestration on life cycle greenhouse gas emissions in Midwestern USA beef finishing systems (2018) · cites this paper as de Vries et al., 2015
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- Authors
- de Vries, M., van Middelaar, C. E., & de Boer, I. J. M.
- Venue
- Livestock Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-08
- Volume
- 178
- Pages
- 279-288
- ISSN
- 1871-1413 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1822667183
- Cited by
- 276
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 24 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 17.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.wur.nl
- Locations
- Livestock Science (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Keywords
- beef production systems, organic beef production, concentrate diet, forage-based diets, global warming potential, acidification potential, eutrophication potential, land use, energy consumption, cradle-to-farm-gate, dual-purpose cattle
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