Nutritional ecology

The foraging ecology is an established since the 1980s interdisciplinary scientific field within the dietetics or food science .

Fundamental representations of the contents of this discipline follow from Koerber, Leitzmann and Männle with their definition: “Nutritional ecology, an interdisciplinary science, includes the interactions of nutrition with the individual, the environment and society. It is the concern of nutritional ecology to develop feasible, future-oriented nutritional concepts that are characterized by high health, environmental and social compatibility. "

Comprehensive analyzes of the environmental effects of nutrition and the agricultural and food sector in Germany were published in 1994, 2000, 2005 and 2014.

In North America, the term nutritional ecology (“nutritional ecology” or “nutrition ecology”) was largely coined by Joan Dye Gussow in the 1970s and 80s .

literature

• Ingrid Hoffmann, Claus Leitzmann (Ed.): Nutritional Ecology: Facing complex challenges in the field of nutrition integratively. oekom Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86581-140-0

• Toni Meier: Environmental protection with knife and fork - The ecological rucksack of nutrition in Germany. oekom Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86581-462-3

Web links

• Working group on nutritional ecology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen

• Working group on sustainable nutrition, Advisory Office for Nutritional Ecology, Munich

• iSuN - Institute for Sustainable Nutrition

• Nutrition Impacts - German-language web portal on nutrition and the environment as well as other nutrition-related topics

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl von Koerber, Thomas Männle, Claus Leitzmann (2004): Whole food nutrition: conception of a contemporary and sustainable diet . Haug Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8304-7104-2
2. ↑ Peter, H. Kramer, KF Müller-Reissmann, J. Schaffner, H. Bossel, A. Meier-Ploeger, H. Vogtmann (1994): Agriculture and Food. Change tendencies in the food system and their climatic relevance. In: Enquete Commission 1995: More future for the earth, sustainable energy policy for lasting climate protection. Final report of the study commission "Protection of the Earth's atmosphere" of the 12th German Bundestag. Economica-Verlag, Bonn. P. 1317ff. Archived copy ( Memento from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Corinna Taylor (2000): Ecological evaluation of diets using selected indicators. Dissertation. Justus-Liebig university of Giessen. [1]
4. ↑ Kirsten Wiegmann, Ulrike Eberle, Uwe Fritsche, Katja Hünecke (2005): Environmental Impacts of Nutrition - Material Flow Analyzes and Scenarios. BMBF research project “Food turnaround”, discussion paper No. 7. Öko-Institut e. V. - Institute for Applied Ecology, Darmstadt / Hamburg. [2]
5. ↑ Toni Meier (2014): Environmental protection with knife and fork - The ecological rucksack of nutrition in Germany . oekom Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86581-462-3