Reducing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice: Perspectives from a Behavioural and Social Change Approach

Climate change is recognised as a significant public health issue that will impact on food security. One of the major contributors to global warming is the livestock industry, and, relative to plant-based agriculture, meat production has a much higher environmental impact in relation to freshwater u...

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Main Authors:	Joyce, Andrew, Dixon, Sarah, Comfort, Jude, Hallett, Jonathan
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3382952/

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spelling	pubmed-33829522012-06-29 Reducing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice: Perspectives from a Behavioural and Social Change Approach Joyce, Andrew Dixon, Sarah Comfort, Jude Hallett, Jonathan Review Article Climate change is recognised as a significant public health issue that will impact on food security. One of the major contributors to global warming is the livestock industry, and, relative to plant-based agriculture, meat production has a much higher environmental impact in relation to freshwater use, amount of land required, and waste products generated. Promoting increased consumption of plant-based foods is a recommended strategy to reduce human impact on the environment and is also now recognised as a potential strategy to reduce the high rates of some chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and certain cancers. Currently there is a scant evidence base for policies and programs aiming to increase consumption of plant-based diets and little research on the necessary conditions for that change to occur and the processes involved in such a change. This paper reviews some of the environmental and health consequences of current dietary practices, reviews literature on the determinants of consuming a plant-based diet, and provides recommendations for further research in this area. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3382952/ /pubmed/22754580 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/978672 Text en Copyright © 2012 Andrew Joyce et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title	Reducing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice: Perspectives from a Behavioural and Social Change Approach
title_short	Reducing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice: Perspectives from a Behavioural and Social Change Approach
title_full	Reducing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice: Perspectives from a Behavioural and Social Change Approach
title_fullStr	Reducing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice: Perspectives from a Behavioural and Social Change Approach
title_full_unstemmed	Reducing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice: Perspectives from a Behavioural and Social Change Approach
title_sort	reducing the environmental impact of dietary choice: perspectives from a behavioural and social change approach
description	Climate change is recognised as a significant public health issue that will impact on food security. One of the major contributors to global warming is the livestock industry, and, relative to plant-based agriculture, meat production has a much higher environmental impact in relation to freshwater use, amount of land required, and waste products generated. Promoting increased consumption of plant-based foods is a recommended strategy to reduce human impact on the environment and is also now recognised as a potential strategy to reduce the high rates of some chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and certain cancers. Currently there is a scant evidence base for policies and programs aiming to increase consumption of plant-based diets and little research on the necessary conditions for that change to occur and the processes involved in such a change. This paper reviews some of the environmental and health consequences of current dietary practices, reviews literature on the determinants of consuming a plant-based diet, and provides recommendations for further research in this area.
publisher	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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Reducing the Environmental Impact of Dietary Choice: Perspectives from a Behavioural and Social Change Approach

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