Estimating and communicating food system impacts: A case study in Montreal, Quebec |
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Authors: | Joël Thibert Madhav G Badami |
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Institution: | a Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Robertson Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544-1013, USAb School of Urban Planning, and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Room 400, Macdonald-Harrington Building, 815, Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2K6 |
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Abstract: | Modern food systems are characterized by a range of resource use, environmental, and socioeconomic impacts, resulting from choices made by various actors, including the public, who are “distanced” from these impacts, with important implications for sustainability. In order to make ecologically responsible food choices, the public will need information that is reliable, easily comprehensible, and that allows them to discriminate between these choices in terms of the range of impacts, and their trade-offs with factors such as market price.We illustrate, by means of a case study involving nine variations of two meals of similar nutritional energy content, some challenges and issues associated with estimating and integrating the diverse impacts of food systems, and explore the implications of our results for communicating these impacts in a manner that balances epistemic adequacy with heuristic usefulness in enabling ecologically responsible food choices. |
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Keywords: | Food systems Food choice Environmental impacts Characterization Integration Communication |
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