Impacts of Reducing UK Beef Consumption Using a Revised Sustainable Diets Framework
Impacts of Reducing UK Beef Consumption Using a Revised Sustainable Diets Framework
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DOI：
10.3390/su11236863
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发表时间：
2019-12-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Reynolds, Christian J.
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作者：
Chalmers, Neil;Stetkiewicz, Stacia;Reynolds, Christian J.
牛肉消费对可持续性的影响是一个复杂和不断变化的领域，因为可持续性涵盖从人类营养充足到生态系统稳定的许多领域。已经创建了三个可持续性评估框架，以帮助政策制定者了解可持续食品系统和健康可持续饮食变化的复杂性。然而，这些框架都还没有应用于个案研究或个别政策问题。本文使用可持续发展评估框架的混合版本来调查减少牛肉消费(同时增加植物性食品的消费，重点是豆类)对英国一级可持续发展的影响。本文的目的是了解这些总体框架在单个政策范围内的适用性。这种评估很重要，因为将以前的高级别框架应用于个别政策，使得有可能一目了然地总结与特定政策有关的各种共同利益和权衡，这在利益攸关方决策方面可能具有特别的价值。我们发现，在可持续性评估框架内发现的许多拟议指标很难在单个问题层面上实施；然而，总体而言，这些指标表明，减少牛肉消费和增加一般植物性食品的消费，重点放在豆类生产上，预计将在评估的八项总体措施中的五项中产生很大好处。
The impact of beef consumption on sustainability is a complex and evolving area, as sustainability covers many areas from human nutrient adequacy to ecosystem stability. Three sustainability assessment frameworks have been created to help policy makers unpack the complexities of sustainable food systems and healthy sustainable dietary change. However, none of these frameworks have yet to be applied to a case study or individual policy issue. This paper uses a hybrid version of the sustainability assessment frameworks to investigate the impact of reducing beef consumption (with a concurrent increase in consumption of plant-based foods, with a focus on legumes) on sustainability at a UK level. The aim of this paper is to understand the applicability of these overarching frameworks at the scale of an individual policy. Such an assessment is important, as this application of previously high-level frameworks to individual policies makes it possible to summarise, at a glance, the various co-benefits and trade-offs associated with a given policy, which may be of particular value in terms of stakeholder decision-making. We find that many of the proposed metrics found within the sustainability assessment frameworks are difficult to implement at an individual issue level; however, overall they show that a reduction in beef consumption and an increase in consumption of general plant-based foods, with a focus around legumes production, would be expected to be strongly beneficial in five of the eight overarching measures which were assessed.