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Environmental Nutrition
Connecting Health and Nutrition with Environmentally Sustainable Diets
Explores the connection between diet, environmental sustainability and human health
Joan Sabate (Edited by)
9780128116609
Paperback, published 2 July 2019
354 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.5 kg
Approx.334 pages
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
Subject Areas: Food & beverage technology [TDCT]
