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1st Edition - July 1, 2019
Editor: Joan Sabate
Environmental Nutrition: Connecting Health and Nutrition with Environmentally Sustainable Diets explores the connection between diet, environmental sustainability and human… Read more
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Environmental Nutrition: Connecting Health and Nutrition with Environmentally Sustainable Diets explores the connection between diet, environmental sustainability and human health. Current food systems are a major contributor to our most pressing health and environmental issues, including climate change, water scarcity, food insecurity and chronic diseases. This book not only seeks to increase our understanding of the interrelatedness of these major global issues, but also aids in the creation of new solutions. Sections discuss the diet, the health and environment trilemma, food systems and their trends, environmental nutrition as an all-encompassing discipline, and the environmental nutrition model.
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
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 Model
Section 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 Nutrition
Section 3: Tools and Approaches
11. Food Life Cycle Assessment
12. Methodological approaches for assessing diet, environmental sustainability and human health
Section 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
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