Description
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.- 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
Table of Contents
Section 1: Introduction1. The diet, health and environment trilemma2. Food systems: description and trends3. Environmental nutrition as an all-encompassing discipline4. The Environmental Nutrition ModelSection 2: Global Challenges for Environmental Nutrition5. Resource inefficiencies in the food system6. Unsustainable societal demands on the food system7. Food and dietary patterns8. Environmental degradation – an undesirable output of the food system9. Impacts of the food system on Earth's environmental boundaries10. The ethical imperative for Environmental NutritionSection 3: Tools and Approaches11. Food Life Cycle Assessment12. Methodological approaches for assessing diet, environmental sustainability and human healthSection 4: Defining Healthy and Sustainable Diets and Their Potential to Address Environmental Nutrition Challenges13. Determinants of sustainable diets14. Can diets be both healthy and sustainable?15. Alternatives to meat: high protein plant products16. Healthy and sustainable diets as climate change mitigation strategies17. Food policy – where does environmental nutrition fit in?18. Healthy and sustainable diets for a food secure future19. Feeding healthy food to a growing population within Earth's biogeophysical limits
