2016/03/17 by Joan Sabaté, Helen Harwatt, Samuel Soret · 57 citations
Environmental Science · Medicine · #Agriculture #Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact #Biology #Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling #Ecology #Economics #Environmental health #Environmental planning #Environmental quality #Environmental resource management #Food security #Food systems #Frontier #Geography #Medicine #Nutritional Studies and Diet #Political science #Public health #Sustainability
paper · open access · doi:10.2105/ajph.2016.303046
published in American Journal of Public Health 106(5), 815-821 (American Public Health Association)
openalex publication_date 2016/03/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Food systems must operate within environmental constraints to avoid disastrous consequences for the biosphere. Such constraints must also take into account nutritional quality and health outcomes. Given the intrinsic relationships between the environmental sciences and nutritional sciences, it is imperative that public health embraces environmental nutrition as the new frontier of research and practice and begins a concerted focus on the new discipline of environmental nutrition, which seeks to comprehensively address the sustainability of food systems. We provide an overview to justify our proposition, outline a research and practice agenda for environmental nutrition, and explore how the complex relationships within food systems that affect public health could be better understood through the environmental nutrition model.