Sustainable diets : how ecological nutrition can transform consumption and the food system / Pamela Mason and Tim Lang.

  • Mason, Pamela, 1969-
Date:
2017
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Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Physical description

xiv, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780415744720