Lazzerini, G., Lucchetti, S., & Nicese, F. P. (n.d.). GHG emissions from the ornamental plant nursery industry: a LCA approach in a nursery district in central Italy. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.08.065
I shall obtain this article and give it a good read. This citation is probably of the defra contract report:
Williams, A. G., Audsley, E., & Sandars, D. L. (2006). Final report to Defra on project IS0205: Determining the environmental burdens and resource use in the production of agricultural and horticultural commodities. Food and Rural Affairs. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14171078129357067523&hl=en&oi=scholarr
Conducting the Life Cycle Assessment of Tomato production in England and Wales was a challenge. Many areas of horticulture are very heterogeneous and it is often hard to interpret the few national statistics in terms of definable representative production systems.
The full citation and abstract are below
Highlights
•The production method used has great importance in defining the total level of GHG.
•The most emitting inputs in the nurseries are plastics and peat.
•“surface unit” was used as functional unit to compare different kind of nurseries.
•The plants grown in a nursery can be considered as carbon sinks.
•Other impact categories can be useful to evaluate the environmental impact of nurseries.
Lazzerini, G., Lucchetti, S., & Nicese, F. P. (n.d.). GHG emissions from the ornamental plant nursery industry: a LCA approach in a nursery district in central Italy. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.08.065
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