Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sustainable diets : a bundle of problems (not one) in search of answers / Tim Lang and Pamela Mason -- Sustainable diets : the public health perspective / Mark Lawrence, Phillip Baker, Kate Wingrove and Rebecca Lindberg -- The challenges of sustainable food systems, where food security meets sustainability : what are countries doing? / Meredith Harper, Alon Shepon, Nir Ohad and Elliot M. Berry -- Climate change and sustainable and healthy diets / Cristina Tirado von der Pahlen -- Biodiversity loss : we need to move from uniformity to diversity / Emile A. Frison and Nick Jacobs -- Agroecology and nutrition : transformative possibilities and challenges / Rachel Bezner Kerr, Maryam Rahmanian, Ibukun Owoputi and Caterina Batello -- Indigenous food systems : contributions to sustainable food systems and sustainable diets / Harriet Kuhnlein, Paul Eme and Yon Fernandez de Larrinoa -- Can cities from the global south be the drivers of sustainable food systems? / Jorge M. Fonseca, Jane Battersby and Luis Antonio T. Hualda -- Consumer-level food waste prevention and reduction towards sustainable diets / Silvia Gaiani, Rosa Rolle and Camelia Bucatariu -- Attaining a healthy and sustainable diet / Jessica Fanzo and Haley Swartz -- Highlighting interlinkages between sustainable diets and sustainable food systems / Alexandre Meybeck and Vincent Gitz -- Understanding the food environment : the role of practice theory and policy implications / Dalia Mattioni, Francesca Galli and Gianluca Brunori -- Sustainable diets: social and cultural perspectives / Xavier Medina and Alicia Aguilar -- Nutritional indicators to assess the sustainability of the Mediterranean diet / Lorenzo Donini, Sandro Dernini, Denis Lairon, Lluis Serra-Majem and Marie-Jos�ephe Amiot -- Assessing the environmental impact of diets / Corn�e Van Doreen -- Sustainable diets and food-based dietary guidelines / Rebekah Jones, Christopher Vogliano and Barbara Burlingame --

Costs and benefits of sustainable diets : impacts for the environment, society and public health nutrition / Adam Drewnowski -- The 10YFP sustainable food systems (SFS) programme as a multi-stakeholder platform for a systemic approach / Michael Mulet Solon, Patrick Mink, Sandro Dernini, Marina Bortoletti and James Lomax -- The Med diet 4.0 framework : a multidimensional driver for revitalizing the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable diet model / Sandro Dernini, Denis Lairon, Elliot Berry, Gianluca Brunori and Roberto Capone -- Traditional foods at the epicentre of sustainable food system / Antonia Trichopoulou -- Globally important agricultural heritage systems (GIAHS) : a legacy for food and nutrition security / Parviz Koohafkan -- Sustainability along all value chains : exploring value chain interactions in sustainable food systems / Allison Loconto, Florence Tartanac, Pilar Santacoloma, Roberto Azofeifa and Emilie Vandecandelaere -- Sustainable and healthy gastronomy: betting on sustainable diets / Marcela Dumani Echandi, Patricia Sed�o Mas�is, Randall Garc�ia V�iquez and Roberto Azofeifa Rodr�iguez -- How organic food systems support sustainability of diets / Bernhard Johannes Kahl, Carola Strassner, Susanne B�ugel, Flavio Paoletti and Denis Lairon -- Institutional food procurement for promoting sustainable diets / Florence Tartanac, Luana F.J. Swensson, Andrea Polo Galante and Danny Hunter -- Renewing partnerships with non-state actors for sustainable diets / Kakoli Ghosh -- Decalogue of gran canaria for sustainable food and nutrition in the community / Llu�is Serra-Majem, Javier Aranceta Bartrina, Adriana Ortiz-Andrellucchi, Cristina Ruano-Rodriguez and Esther Gonz�alez-Padilla -- Ten years to achieve transformational change : the United Nations decade of action on nutrition 2016-2025 / Stineke Oenema -- Towards a code of conduct for sustainable diets / Barbara Burlingame.

This book takes a transdisciplinary approach and considers multisectoral actions, integrating health, agriculture, environment, economy, and socio-cultural issues, to comprehensively explore the topic of sustainable diets. Consideration is given to the multi-dimensional nature of diets and food systems, and the book explores the challenging issues connecting food security and nutrition to sustainability, culture, tradition, and a broader range of scientific topics. The first section, 'Grand Challenges' (chapters 1-9), positions sustainable diets in the multi-perspective context of food systems. Within the current international debate, it introduces some overarching wicked problems, resistant to resolution in spite of the dire consequences of inaction. The chapters cover multi-sectoral policy, public health, sustainable food systems, climate change, biodiversity loss, agro-ecology, indigenous peoples, the role of cities, and food and waste. The contributions in the second section, 'Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches' (chapters 10-17) discuss the topic of sustainable diets from different cultural, sectoral and disciplinary angles. The issues are analysed with data and methods derived from social sciences, clinical sciences and experimental sciences. Perspectives and solutions, with evidence, are presented to underpin policies and interventions. The last section, 'Moving Forward' (chapters 18-29) deals with selected innovations, initiatives, projects, case studies and programmes enhancing sustainable diets by linking nutrition to food systems.

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