Evaluating the environmental impacts of conventional and organic apple production in Nova Scotia, Canada, through life cycle assessment

Business & Economics

• Nova Scotia 100%
• Life Cycle Assessment 82%
• Apple 73%
• Environmental Impact 59%
• Canada 50%
• Performance Improvement 43%
• Burden 37%
• Manure 32%
• System Boundary 32%
• Retail Location 31%
• Disease Management 30%
• Diesel Fuel 30%
• Pest 28%
• Combustion 27%
• Electricity Generation 25%
• Supply Chain 25%
• Fertilizer 23%
• Harvest 23%
• Trucks 23%
• Subsystem 22%
• Freight 21%
• Environmental Performance 20%
• Ship 18%
• Electricity 18%
• Energy 16%
• Scenarios 13%
• Resources 13%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Supply chains 63%
• Environmental impact 61%
• Life cycle 55%
• Orchards 48%
• Electricity 47%
• Manures 45%
• Fertilizers 41%
• Diesel fuels 33%
• Trucks 30%
• Coal 26%
• Ships 26%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• life cycle 52%
• environmental impact 50%
• long-distance transport 29%
• pest control 28%
• environmental burden 27%
• emission levels 25%
• orchard 25%
• diesel fuel 25%
• electricity generation 24%
• environmental performance 23%
• manure 20%
• harvest 19%
• electricity 18%
• ship 18%
• fertilizer 18%
• combustion 16%
• coal 14%
• resource 11%
• energy 10%