Environmental impacts and resource use of milk production on the North China Plain, based on life cycle assessment

2018 ◽  
Vol 625 ◽  
pp. 486-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoqin Wang ◽  
Stewart Ledgard ◽  
Jiafa Luo ◽  
Yongqin Guo ◽  
Zhanqin Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Milk Production ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
North China Plain ◽  
North China ◽  
The North ◽  
The North China Plain

scholarly journals Organic Vegetable Cultivation Reduces Resource and Environmental Costs While Increasing Farmers’ Income in the North China Plain

Agronomy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
Qiang Xu ◽  
Kelin Hu ◽  
Hongyuan Zhang ◽  
Hui Han ◽  
Ji Li
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
North China Plain ◽  
North China ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Environment Impact ◽  
The North ◽  
Organic Cultivation ◽  
The North China Plain ◽  
Vegetable Cultivation

Organic cultivation has been promoted in recent years as a possible alternative to conventional cultivation in order to reduce environmental burdens and nonrenewable resource use. However, a comprehensive assessment of the sustainability of different vegetable cultivation modes is currently lacking. In this study, a combined use of economic analysis (ECA), emergy analysis (EMA), and lifecycle assessment (LCA) was conducted to evaluate the economic performance, resource use, and environmental impacts of three greenhouse eggplant production modes, namely conventional (CON), low-input (LOW), and organic (ORG) cultivation. ECA results showed that the economic profit and value to cost ratio of ORG increased by 14%–17% and 36%–41% compared with CON and LOW, respectively. EMA results showed that ORG had higher resource use efficiency. The unit emergy value and emergy sustainability index of ORG increased by 37%–49% and 45%–65% than those of CON and LOW, respectively. LCA results revealed lower potential environmental impacts for ORG, and its total potential environment impact index was 80%–91% lower than that of CON and LOW. These results showed that organic vegetable cultivation reduced resource and environmental costs while increasing farmers’ income, which is the most sustainable vegetable production mode in the North China Plain.

scholarly journals Aerosol characterization over the North China Plain: Haze life cycle and biomass burning impacts in summer

2016 ◽  
Vol 121 (5) ◽  
pp. 2508-2521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yele Sun ◽  
Qi Jiang ◽  
Yisheng Xu ◽  
Yan Ma ◽  
Yingjie Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Biomass Burning ◽  
North China Plain ◽  
North China ◽  
The North ◽  
The North China Plain ◽  
Aerosol Characterization
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