Overview
- Brings to life a story of the Chesapeake Bay as a case study readily applicable to other ecosystems where the food system has damaged the health of the environment and its people
- Combines historical ecology, human history, economics, ethics, climate change studies, nutrition science and aquatic science to construct a cohesive narrative for understanding the intersection of environmental sustainability and human health
- Constructs a virtual timeline of the Chesapeake Bay and its food system that extends from the distant geological past to the challenging future of an Earth undergoing rapid climate change
- Presents the science that enables readers to see the consequences of their dietary choices for their own health and that of the environment
- Documents the consequences of both the Standard American Diet, and the industrialized chemical agriculture that supports it
Part of the book series: Estuaries of the World (EOTW)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Foundations of the Chesapeake Bay Food System and the Consequences of Over-Extraction
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Industrial-Chemical Agriculture Reshapes the Bay’s Ecosystem
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Consequences of and Alternatives to the Standard American Diet: Human and Ecosystem Health
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About this book
This book explores a specific ecosystem in depth, in order to weave a story built on place and history. It incorporates the theme of a journey to help reveal the environment-human-health-food system-problem. While drawing on a historical approach stretching back to the American colonial era, it also incorporates more contemporary scientific findings. By crafting its story around a specific place, the book makes it easier for readers to relate to the content, and to subsequently use what they learn to better understand the role of food systems at the global scale.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. Benjamin Cuker has studied arctic lakes, southern ponds and the Chesapeake Bay. His work on diversifying the aquatic science community garnered him a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation (1999) and awards from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (1993, 2009). Having been a Professor of Marine and Environmental Science at Hampton University since 1988, he also knows the Chesapeake well as a cruising and racing sailor who won the “Down The Bay” race in 2014 and 2015.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Diet for a Sustainable Ecosystem
Book Subtitle: The Science for Recovering the Health of the Chesapeake Bay and its People
Editors: Benjamin E. Cuker
Series Title: Estuaries of the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45481-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45480-7Published: 11 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45483-8Published: 12 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45481-4Published: 10 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2214-1553
Series E-ISSN: 2214-1561
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 430
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 198 illustrations in colour
Topics: Conservation Biology/Ecology, Animal Ecology, Biodiversity, Food Science