【报告题目】： National and Global Environmental Impacts of Improving Diets

【主讲人】：Giovanni Baiocchi (Associate Professor of University of Maryland College Park)

【报告时间】：2018年06月11日（周一）上午10点

【报告地点】：北京理工大学主楼六层

【主讲人介绍】：

Dr Baiocchi is an Associate Professor in Department of Geographical Sciences and Affiliate Associate Professor in Department of Economics at University of Maryland College Park. His main research looks at the global and local impact of economic activity, including trade, urbanization, and lifestyles. He has published a wide range of interdisciplinary research in international multidisciplinary journals such as Ecological Economics, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Nature Climate Change, PNAS, Global Environmental Change, and Nature Sustainability, Science, etc. Dr Baiocchi was a lead author for the IPCC 5th Assessment for Working Group III, focusing on the drivers, trends, and mitigation of climate change and is an associate editor of the Journal of Cleaner Production.

【内容介绍】：

Global food consumption is transitioning in a way that not only imposes pressure on the ecological environment but also adds to health risks. While scholars have been discussing whether shifting to healthy diets also realize a co-benefit in reducing environmental impacts, the spatial distribution of such change and the spillover effects due to the globalization of the food supply chain is under-explored. In this study, we evaluate the national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land appropriation of shifting to dietary patterns at the global level. We compare the diet of each country in 2011 with the dietary recommendation from Global Burden of Disease Study to identify the change of food consumption in eradicating dietary health risks. Next, we adopt the environmentally-extended input-output analysis to quantify the GHG emissions and land appropriation resulting from the change of food consumption in each country, and further map the territorial environmental impacts based on the international trade network.