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Towards Healthy and Sustainable Diets: Perspectives and Policy to Promote the Health of People and the Planet

Towards Healthy and Sustainable Diets: Perspectives and Policy to Promote the Health of People and the Planet

Paperback

Series: Springerbriefs in Public Health

Medical ReferenceEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 3319742035
ISBN13: 9783319742038
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Mar 2 2018
Pages: 85
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This clear-sighted volume synthesizes wide-ranging knowledge of human food consumption, food production systems, and sustainability to offer methods of improving the impact of food choices on people and the environment. The comprehensive coverage addresses myriad challenges and paradoxes (e.g., health-conscious food choices that put greater stress on the planet, hunger amidst plenty) associated with the production of sustainable, nutritious food. Direct and complex links between local and global issues are highlighted in innovative approaches to transforming food production from the farm to the table and from the policy desk to the real world. Chapters identify, examine, and offer realistic recommendations for achieving critical goals, among them:

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