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- Book Title
- Monocultures of the Mind
- Publication Name
- Monocultures of the Mind : Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology
- Title
- Monocultures of the Mind
- Subtitle
- Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1856492184
- EAN
- 9781856492188
- ISBN
- 9781856492188
- Publisher
- ZED Books, The Limited
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering
- Topic
- Science Nature & Math
- Release Date
- 01/02/1993
- Release Year
- 1993
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 8.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the South in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment and the posititon of women in society coincide. In this new volume, she brings together her thinking on the protection of biodiversity, the implications of biotechnology, and the consequences for agriculture of the global pre-eminence of Western-style scientific knowledge. In lucid and accessible fashion, she examines the current threats to the planet's biodiversity and the environmental and human consequences of its erosion and replacement by monocultural production. She shows how the new Biodiversity Convention has been gravely undermined by a mixture of diplomatic dilution during the process of negotiation and Northern hi-tech interests making money out of the new biotechnologies. She explains what these technologies involve and gives examples of their impact in practice. She questions their claims to improving natural species for the good of all and highlights the ethical and environmental problems posed. Underlying her arguments is the view that the North's particular approach to scientific understanding has led to a system of monoculture in agriculture - a model that is not being foisted on the South, displacing its societies' ecologically sounder, indigenous and age-old experiences of truly sustainable food cultivation, forest management and animal husbandry. This rapidly accelerating process of technology and system transfer is impoverishing huge numbers of people, disrupting the social systems that provide them with security and dignity, and will ultimately result in a sterile planet in both North and South, In a policy intervention of potentially great significance, she calls instead for a halt, at international as well as local level, to the aid and market incentives to both large-scale destruction of habitats where biodiversity thrives and the introduction of centralised, homogenous systems of cultivation.
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Publisher
ZED Books, The Limited
ISBN-10
1856492184
ISBN-13
9781856492188
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1014921
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Monocultures of the Mind : Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
8.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Qh75.S4785 1993
Reviews
"Shiva has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of ordinary people in India. Her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world." -- Ms Magazine "The South's best known environmentalist." -- New Internationalist "One of the world's most prominent radical scientists" -- The Guardian "Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power." -- The Progressive, 'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists' The Guardian 'Shiva has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of ordinary people in India. Her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world.' Ms Magazine 'The South's best known environmentalist.' New Internationalist 'Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power.' The Progressive, 'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists' The Guardian 'Shiva has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of ordinary people in India. Her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world.' Ms Magazine 'The South's best known environmentalist.' New Internationalist 'Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power.' The Progressive, 'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists'The Guardian'Shiva has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of ordinary people in India. Her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world.' Ms Magazine'The South's best known environmentalist.' New Internationalist'Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power.' The Progressive
Table of Content
Introduction 1. Monocultures of the Mind 2. Biodiversity: A Third World Perspective 3. Biotechnology and the Environment 4. The Seed and the Spinning Wheel: Technology Development and Biodiversity Conservation 5. The Biodiversity Convention: An Evaluation from the Third World Perspective
Copyright Date
1993
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Biotechnology, Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, International / General
Lccn
93-234404
Dewey Decimal
333.95
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, Science
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