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Environmental nutrition : connecting health and nutrition with environmentally sustainable diets /
Environmental Nutrition: Connecting Health and Nutrition with Environmentally Sustainable Diets explores the interrelatedness of diet, environmental sustainability, and human health, as well as potential solutions to these global challenges--back cover.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA, United States :
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Part 1: Introduction; Chapter 1: The diet, health, and environment trilemma; Abstract; Introduction; The increased use of natural resources; Planetary boundaries; Health and food systems: From infectious disease to chronic disease; Conclusion; Chapter 2: Food systems: Description and trends; Abstract; Introduction; Ancient agriculture; Traditional agriculture; Modern agriculture; Industrial agriculture; Sustainable food systems and the future; Globalized food system; Conclusions
- Chapter 3: The environmental nutrition model; Abstract; Introduction; The background of industrial agriculture; Basic food system model; The environmental nutrition model; Applications of the model; Organization of the following book chapters; Part 2: Global Challenges for Environmental Nutrition; Chapter 4: Natural resource constraints on the food system; Abstract; Introduction; Water constraints; Energy constraints; Ecological constraints; Discussion; Chapter 5: Unsustainable societal demands on the food system; Abstract; Acknowledgments; Introduction
- What are the unsustainable demands placed on the food system?What drives unsustainable demands on the food system?; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Food production and dietary patterns; Abstract; Introduction; Food systems resources inputs; Food system resource outputs; Food systems drivers and consequences; Global impact of food systems; Lifecycle assessment; Dietary patterns, health, and equity; Physical health; Nutritional adequacy; Food security and federal assistance programs; Food waste; Food safety; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Environmental degradation-An undesirable output of the food system
- Abstract; Introduction; Air-Greenhouse gases; Water-Nitrogen and phosphorus; Soil-Quality issues; Biota-Pesticides and microbes; Biota-Genes and biodiversity; Discussion and conclusions; Part 3: Tools and Approaches; Chapter 8: Environmental nutrition and LCA; Abstract; Goal and scope; Life cycle inventory; Life cycle impact assessment; Interpretation; Conclusions; Part 4: Defining Healthy and Sustainable Diets and their Potential to Address Environmental Nutrition Challenges; Chapter 9: Calculating GHG impacts of meals and menus using streamlined LCA data; Abstract; Introduction; Approach
- Food GWP hierarchy and rules of thumb; Detailed GWP values and streamline calculations of meal plans; Protein and developing a delicious low GWP menu; To make headway, focus on cuisine, not ingredients; A side about food waste; Caution in using the results and further research; Conclusion; Chapter 10: Determinants of sustainable diets; Abstract; Introduction; The four determinants of a sustainable diet; Processed versus whole foods; Imported versus in-season; Waste versus efficiency; Plant versus animal foods; Conclusion