Environmental Nutrition
Connecting Health and Nutrition with Environmentally Sustainable Diets
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Description
Key Features
- Demonstrates how the food system, the environment and human health are inter-related
- Explores how dietary patterns impact food production and agriculture choices
- Identifies the imbalance between current food production relative to demand
- Addresses how the current food system negatively impacts the environment
- Provides practical solutions to how diets can be both healthy and sustainable
Readership
Food scientists; food, nutrition, agricultural, and environmental researchers; environmental health professionals; those interested in food policy; and academics who teach graduate courses on this topic
Table of Contents
Section 1: Introduction
1. The diet, health and environment trilemma
2. Food systems: description and trends
3. Environmental nutrition as an all-encompassing discipline
4. The Environmental Nutrition ModelSection 2: Global Challenges for Environmental Nutrition
5. Resource inefficiencies in the food system
6. Unsustainable societal demands on the food system
7. Food and dietary patterns
8. Environmental degradation – an undesirable output of the food system
9. Impacts of the food system on Earth’s environmental boundaries
10. The ethical imperative for Environmental NutritionSection 3: Tools and Approaches
11. Food Life Cycle Assessment
12. Methodological approaches for assessing diet, environmental sustainability and human healthSection 4: Defining Healthy and Sustainable Diets and Their Potential to Address Environmental Nutrition Challenges
13. Determinants of sustainable diets
14. Can diets be both healthy and sustainable?
15. Alternatives to meat: high protein plant products
16. Healthy and sustainable diets as climate change mitigation strategies
17. Food policy – where does environmental nutrition fit in?
18. Healthy and sustainable diets for a food secure future
19. Feeding healthy food to a growing population within Earth’s biogeophysical limits
Product details
- No. of pages: 354
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: July 1, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128116609
- eBook ISBN: 9780128116616