Journal article

Publication year: 2011

Pages: 1-17

Journal: Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Volume number: 50

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 0367-0244

eISSN: 1543-5237

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2010.524101

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group

Abstract: 
Many nutrition-related problems (e.g., obesity) are complex and thus characterized by a multitude of components, interrelatedness, associated feedbacks, and dynamics. Nutrition ecology is an innovative concept to deal with complexity and multidimensionality in nutrition science and practice. Along the food supply chain the dimensions health, environment, society, and economy are taken into account simultaneously and coequally. By combining special disciplinary knowledge with methods and principles of research on complexity and knowledge integration, nutrition ecology offers a concept to develop approaches to solving complex nutrition-related problems. Accordingly, the conceptual background and methodological elements of nutrition ecology are presented and discussed.

Harvard Citation style: Schneider, K. and Hoffmann, I. (2011) Nutrition EcologyA Concept for Systemic Nutrition Research and Integrative Problem Solving, Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 50(1), Article PII 931971525. pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2010.524101

APA Citation style: Schneider, K., & Hoffmann, I. (2011). Nutrition EcologyA Concept for Systemic Nutrition Research and Integrative Problem Solving. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 50(1), Article PII 931971525, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2010.524101