The land-network problem: ecosystem carbon balance in planning sustainable agro-food supply chains
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- 作者：Riccardo Accorsia ; riccardo.accorsi2@unibo.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Susan Choletteb ; Riccardo Manzinia ; Chiara Pinia ; Stefano Penazzia
- 关键词：Food supply chain ; Sustainability ; Land-use ; Carbon footprint ; Linear programming ; Climate change
- 刊名：Journal of Cleaner Production
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：20 January 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：112
- 期：part_P1
- 页码：158-171
- 全文大小：3025 K
文摘
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An inclusive definition of the agro-food ecosystem is given with respect to the goal of achieving climate stability.
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An original framework to design sustainable agro-food ecosystems from farm-to-fork is illustrated.
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A planning problem, named land-network (LN) problem, is illustrated and solved via linear programming.
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Quantifying both economic and environmental metrics, the framework leads the planning of sustainable food supply chains.
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The framework supports agro-food firms in complying with environmental policy tools as carbon taxes and carbon trading.