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Title
Food in a planetary emergency / Dora Marinova, Diana Bogueva.
ISBN
9789811677076 (electronic bk.)
9811677077 (electronic bk.)
9789811677069
9811677069
Publication Details
Singapore : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (246 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-16-7707-6 doi
Call Number
HD9000.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.1/9
Summary
This book Food in a Planetary Emergency is a timely overview of the current food systems and the required transformations to respond to the challenges of climate change, population pressures, biodiversity loss and use of natural resources, such as soils, water and phosphorus. This book takes a planetary health perspective which explores the links between natural systems and human wellbeing implying that there is need for united actions to achieve important environmental and population health co-benefits. This book outlines that the foundation of planetary health is sustainability. It addresses environment and climate change emergency as a global agenda, however, emphasises the urgency of the sustainability perspective which integrates a wide spectrum of issues that require integrated solutions to offer better prospects for humanity. This book drives this argument further through the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) where food is not just SDG2 but transcends all 17 goals. This book tackles the problems of food production and consumption at a global, industry and individual level linking it to topics related to the natural environment, climate change, waste, marketing, new ways of producing food and providing alternative proteins, mitigating non-communicable diseases, flexitarianism and the role of Generation Z in the emerging dietary choices. This book benefits readers with understanding the importance and intricacy of their dietary choices at a point in time when our planet is facing an emergency triggered by long-term dependence on fossil fuels and artificial fertilisers but also by the ways we have provided food. However, this book also delivers the message that safeguarding and sustaining planetary health is possible.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 16, 2022).
Part I: Global Perspectives
Chapter 1. Sustainability and a Planetary Diet
Chapter 2. Climate and Food
Chapter 3. Food and Environmental Emergency
Chapter 4. Reducing Food Waste and Packaging
Part II: Industry and Marketing Perspectives
Chapter 5. Circular Agriculture
Chapter 6. Sustainability Transitions in Food Production
Chapter 7. Alternative Proteins
Chapter 8. Food Marketing in a Planetary Emergency
Part III: Individual Perspectives
Chapter 9. Flexitarianism
Chapter 10. Mitigating Diseases
Chapter 11. Generation Z and Food Choices
Epilogue.
