ISHS Acta Horticulturae 76: Symposium on More Profitable Use of Energy in Protected Cultivation
TOWARDS AN ECONOMICS OF ENERGY IN HORTICULTURE |
| Author: | H. Storck |
| Abstract:
Energy-oriented economic research is needed first to increase the efficiency of an important and increasingly expensive and scarce production means in horticulture under glass in order to improve the financial results of the horticultural firms. Second, we need information and models about the energy flows in horticulture for appraising the welfare benefits of the industry and for evaluating political decisions on energy policy affecting it. Third, this research should be seen in the broader framework of an ecology oriented research on horticultural production, processing, and marketing, which takes into account its negative and positive side effects on the environment as well as its requirements for scarce resources | |
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