Nutrition and Environmental Impacts on Sustainable Food
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 281
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
While sustainable food may still be vaguely defined in science, it is evident that the sustainability of food includes several aspects. For example, food production and consumption is associated with practically all the UN’s sustainable development goals. Food consumption as a source of nutrition is directly linked to such goals as preventing hunger and maintaining health and well-being. In this sense, good nutrition is undoubtedly a core aspect of sustainable food. Environmental sustainability, of course, is equally important for sustainability. Environmental impacts of food can be assessed using various methods. While the impacts associated with food production can also be assessed using spatial or point-of-production based methods, the impacts associated with food consumption particularly require the life cycle approach, which takes the entire production–consumption chain into account. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a particularly suitable method to use in consumption-oriented assessment, and is one of the most commonly used life-cycle methods for product and diet scale assessments. However, nutrition should be more often and more profoundly included in the LCA method and its food-product or diet applications. In this Special Issue, methodological development and applications of methods combining varied nutrition and environmental aspects, as well as theoretical reflections on an assessment of food sustainability focusing particularly on nutrition and environment, are welcome. Papers dealing with this issue on both product and diet scales are welcome.
Dr. Merja Saarinen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable food
- sustainable diet
- Life Cycle Assessment
- nutrition
- environmental impacts of food
- sustainability
- food consumption
- interdisciplinary research
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