Environmentally Sustainable Diets
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2020) | Viewed by 22020
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The purpose of the Special Issue on Environmentally Sustainable Diets is to focus on how future diets could affect health and the environmental impact. Changing from an animal-based diet to a plant-forward diet such as suggested by the EAT-Lancet diet [1] is anticipated to have major health and environmental effects. The EAT-Lancet diet is a mark on the horizon, since the current dietary patterns in most countries are far off these guidelines. There is a need for short-term effective changes in consumption and production towards healthy and more sustainable diets.
The aim of this Special Issue is to deliver key findings and insights that aid individuals, businesses, communities, and governments to make the healthy and sustainable choice an informed choice. Changing current diets towards healthier and more sustainable diets is not only a responsibility of the consumer. The food environment (availability), food pricing, and marketing (affordability) as well as liking (preferability) play a major role.
In this Special Issue, the role of different stakeholders will be assessed on how this transition could be shaped. Therefore, different perspectives on how to impact dietary changes should be investigated. We welcome innovative studies that include food system approaches, dietary scenario analysis, trade-off analysis between different health and environmental indicators, effectiveness of policy scenarios using true price/cost, as well as insights in consumer preferences around healthy and sustainable diets.
The focus should be on how small steps and actions could aid in starting the transition toward a healthier and more sustainable diet today and not tomorrow.
1. Willett W, Rockström J, Loken B, Springmann M, Lang T, Vermeulen S, Garnett T, Tilman D, DeClerck F, Wood A: Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. The Lancet 2019, 393(10170):447-492.
Dr. Sander Biesbroek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dietary patterns
- dietary change
- future diets
- health
- transition
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