Sustainable diets : how ecological nutrition can transform consumption and the food system
Pamela Mason (Author), Tim Lang (Author)
The authors propose a multi-criteria approach to sustainable diets, giving equal weight to nutrition and public health, the environment, socio-cultural issues, food quality, economics and governance.
Print Book, English, 2017
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2017
xiv, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780415744706, 9780415744720, 0415744709, 0415744725
972309008
Ebook version :
Introduction : what's the problem?
Sustainable diets : welcome to the arguments
Methodologies : measuring what matters while not drowning in complexity
Health : nutrition science and the messy effects of diet on health
Environment : why food drives ecosystems stress
Culture : the social conditions shaping eating patterns
Food quality : everyone likes their own food
Real food economics : runaway costs and concentration
Policy and governance : will anyone unlock the consumption lock-in?
Conclusions : why sustainable diets matter now