Environmental Nutrition: Connecting Health and Nutrition with Environmentally Sustainable Diets

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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. Demonstrates how the food system, the environment and human health are inter-relatedExplores how dietary patterns impact food production and agriculture choicesIdentifies the imbalance between current food production relative to demandAddresses how the current food system negatively impacts the environmentProvides practical solutions to how diets can be both healthy and sustainable Content: Part I: Introduction: 1. The diet, health, and environment trilemma / Irana W. Hawkins -- 2. Food systems : description and trends / Andrew Berardy, Heidi Lynch and Christopher Wharton -- 3. The environmental nutrition model / Joan Sabaté. Part II: Global challenges for environmental nutrition: 4. Natural resource constraints on the food system / D.L. Marrin -- 5. Unsustainable societal demands on the food system / Linnea I. Laestadius and Julia A. Wolfson -- 6. Food production and dietary patterns / Heidi Lynch, Andrew Berardy and Christopher Wharton -- 7. Environmental degradation : an undesirable output of the food system / Harry Aiking. Part III: Tools and approaches: 8. Environmental nutrition and LCA / Nathan Pelletier, Robert Parker and Patrik Henriksson. Part IV: Defining healthy and sustainable diets and their potential to address environmental nutrition challenges: 9. Calculating GHG impacts of meals and menus using streamlined LCA data / Stephen Clune -- 10. Determinants of sustainable diets / Joan Sabaté and Tony Jehi -- 11. Can diets be both healthy and sustainable? Solving the dilemma between healthy diets versus sustainable diets / Marco Springmann -- 12. Could ecologically sound human nutrition include the consumption of animal products? / Jan Deckers -- 13. Healthy diets as a climate change mitigation strategy / Michael Clark -- 14. Food policy : where does environmental nutrition fit in? / Trent Grassian -- 15. Sustainable diets for a food-secure future / Claire Fitch Bowdren and Raychel Santo -- 16. Feeding a growing population within planetary boundaries : a three-step strategy: Identifying the fierce necessity of "how?" in the fierce urgency of now / Helen Harwatt.