Sustainability of human activities is one of the most important concerns of the European Union. As a consequence, the need for the assessment of the level of sustainability achieved both at firm and at government level is increasing. This process is involving all the economic sectors, including agriculture and livestock. European subsides are in many cases linked to an environmentally sound behaviour of farms. This paper aims to compare three methods for the assessment of the environmental sustainability: Emergy Evaluation, Ecological Footprint Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment. For each of the three methods a review of the application in agriculture, and specifically in poultry breeding, is presented. A comparative analysis between the three methods is developed, based on an example of application to a poultry rearing intensive farm.
Measuring Environmental Sustainability of Intensive Poultry-Rearing System
BOGGIA, Antonio;CASTELLINI, Cesare;PAOLOTTI, LUISA;
2010
Abstract
Sustainability of human activities is one of the most important concerns of the European Union. As a consequence, the need for the assessment of the level of sustainability achieved both at firm and at government level is increasing. This process is involving all the economic sectors, including agriculture and livestock. European subsides are in many cases linked to an environmentally sound behaviour of farms. This paper aims to compare three methods for the assessment of the environmental sustainability: Emergy Evaluation, Ecological Footprint Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment. For each of the three methods a review of the application in agriculture, and specifically in poultry breeding, is presented. A comparative analysis between the three methods is developed, based on an example of application to a poultry rearing intensive farm.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
