Chapter
Part I Environmental impacts of food production and processing
1 Improving nutrient management in agriculture to reduce eutrophication, acidification and climate change
1.2 Eutrophication and acidification
1.4 Mismanagement of nutrients
2 Increasing the efficiency of water use in
crop production
2.2 Water scarcity: the global dimension
2.3 Future demand for water and food
2.4 Improving water use efficiency in agriculture
2.5 Future trends and options to increase water use
Part II Life Cycle Assessment of food production and processing
3 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of food production and processing: An introduction
3.2 History of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
3.3 LCA as a decision-support tool
3.4 Application of LCA to food systems
3.6 Sources of further information and advice
4 Methodology for life cycle assessment
4.3 LCA methodology in short
4.4 Critical methodology choices
4.5 Examples of different applications’ demands on methodology
4.7 Sources of further information and advice
5 Challenges relating to data and system delimitation in life cycle assessments of food products
5.2 System delimitation in agricultural Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs)
5.3 System delimitation in electricity LCAs
5.4 System delimitation and by-products in food LCAs
5.6 Sources of further information and advice
6 Challenges in assessing the environmental impacts of crop production and horticulture
6.2 Main challenges: (a) Defining agricultural system
6.3 Main challenges: (b) Understanding agricultural systems
6.4 Implications and recommendations
7 Complexities in assessing the environmental impacts of livestock products
7.2 Complexities in assessing the environmental impacts of livestock systems
7.5 Interpretation of results
8 Challenges in assessing the environmental impacts of aquaculture and fisheries
8.2 Overview of the biological impacts of fishing
8.3 Overview of the biological impacts of aquaculture
8.4 Energy use and carbon footprint of seafood supply chains
8.5 Eco-labeling of seafood
8.6 Conclusions and future trends
Part III Current and future applications of life cycle assessment and related approaches
9 Towards sustainable industrial food production using life cycle assessment approaches
9.3 Methodological approach: proposal of a framework
10 Addressing land use and ecotoxicological impacts in life cycle assessments of food production technologies
10.2 Life cycle impact methods for land occupation and transformation
10.3 Life cycle impact methods for ecotoxicity
10.6 Sources of further information and advice
11 Combining life cycle assessment of food products with economic tools
11.2 Methods of combining life cycle assessment of food products with economics tools
11.3 Discussion and conclusion
12 Inclusion of social aspects in life cycle assessment of food
12.2 Including social aspects in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA ) of food
12.3 Methods of including social aspects in LCA of food
12.6 Sources of further information and advice
13 Ecodesign of food products
13.3 The spiderweb approach
13.6 Sources of further information and advice
14 Footprinting methods for assessment of the environmental impacts of food production and processing
14.2 Footprinting, comparison and contrast to Life cycle Assessment (LCA)
14.3 An introduction to ecological footprinting
14.5 C arbon footprinting
14.6 Environmental footprinting
14.7 Nitrogen footprinting
14.8 Non-environment footprinting
14.10 Sources of further information and advice
15 Carbon footprinting and carbon labelling of food products
15.2 Principles of carbon analysis and carbon labelling of food products
15.3 Examples of some food products for which carbon footprints have been published
15.4 Difficulties and uncertainties in calculating carbon
footprints
15.6 Sources of further information and advice
16 Sustainability indicators for the food supply chain
16.2 Sustainability indicators and sustainability benchmarking in the supply chain
16.3 Sustainability indicators for the food supply chain
16.4 Application of analytical network processing (ANP) to sustainability scores
16.6 Sources of further information and advice
Part IV Environmental management in the food industry
17 Establishing an environmental management system in the food industry
17.2 Drivers for and benefits of implementing environmental management systems (EMS) in the food industry
17.3 Food industry context
17.5 Auditing environmental management systems
17.8 Sources of further information and advice
18 Environmental training for the food industry
18.2 The value and nature of environmental training
18.3 Training needs and improving environmental understanding throughout the organisation
18.4 The concept of the learning organisation: thinking in systems
18.5 Barriers to effective training
18.6 Learning in the supply chain
18.7 The external training situation: shared vision and the ‘learning lab’
18.9 Internet-based training
18.10 Maintaining a learning organisation
18.12 Sources of further information and advice
19 Eco-labelling of agricultural food products
Part I Environmental impacts of food production and processing
Part II Life Cycle Assessment of food production and processing
Part III Current and future applications of life cycle assessment and related approaches
Part IV Environmental management in the food industry
Environmental Assessment and Management in the Food Industry
：Life Cycle Assessment and Related Approaches
( Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition )
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