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Science Cultivating Practice
A History of Agricultural Science in the Netherlands and its Colonies, 1863–1986
Av H. Maat
Inbunden, 2001
1095 kr
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Science Cultivating Practice is an institutional history of agricultural science in the Netherlands and its overseas territories. The focus of this study is the variety of views about a proper relationship between science and (agricultural) practice. Such views and plans materialised in the overall …
Economics as a Political Muse
Philosophical Reflections on the Relevance of Economics for Ecological Policy
Inbunden, 2002
1095 kr
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This text looks on the role economic theory plays in present-day ecological policy from a philosophical perspective. It starts from fundamental questions concerning the nature of the problem of sustainability, of politics, and of economic science. It confronts the results of this investigation with …
Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture
Av F.W. Jozef Keulartz, Michiel Korthals m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1095 kr
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Our technological culture has an extremely dynamic character: old ways of reproducing ourselves, managing nature and keeping animals are continually replaced by new ones; norms and values with respect to our bodies, food production, health care and environmental protection are regularly being put …
Pragmatist Ethics for a Technological Culture
Av F.W. Jozef Keulartz, Michiel Korthals m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
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Our technological culture has an extremely dynamic character: old ways of reproducing ourselves, managing nature and keeping animals are continually replaced by new ones; norms and values with respect to our bodies, food production, health care and environmental protection are regularly being put …
Political Theories of Risk Analysis
Inbunden, 2004
1095 kr
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The purpose of this study is to question whether liberal political theories ought to inform the way policymakers and administrators analyze risk in proposed courses of environmental practice. In order to explore the relationship of liberal theory to rational practice in environmental policy, this …
Before Dinner
Philosophy and Ethics of Food
Av M. Korthals
Inbunden, 2004
1163 kr
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This book is an extensive, original and systematic treatment of many important philosophical and ethical aspects of food (consumption and production). May we eat just anything? Can we do everything with animals, even genetic modification? If not, how can we regulate those processes so that they …
Agricultural Standards
The Shape of the Global Food and Fiber System
Inbunden, 2005
1095 kr
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Food and agricultural standards have recently risen to the top of both national and international agendas. Popular concerns about the power of the World Trade Organization focus on the intertwined relationships between environmental protection, labor and human rights, and the standards used to …
Taste for Ethics
An Ethic of Food Consumption
Inbunden, 2006
1095 kr
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This book marks a new departure in ethics. In our culture ethics has first and foremost been a question of “the good life” in relation to other people. Central to this ethic was friendship, inspired by Greek thought (not least Aristotle), and the caritas concept from the Judaeo-Christian tradition. …
Nature, Value, Duty
Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III
Av Christopher J. Preston, Wayne Ouderkirk
Inbunden, 2006
1639 kr
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Gifford Lecturer and Templeton Prize winner Holmes Rolston, III is widely known as the father of environmental ethics. His writings range between natural philosophy and theology and include detailed presentations of an interlocking position that includes aesthetics, value theory, natural resource …
Why care for Nature?
In search of an ethical framework for environmental responsibility and education
Inbunden, 2006
1095 kr
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Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? 1 George Orwell This book has been written in a time of environmental neglect. A time in which the expansive needs of multinational corporations, western consumer interests and the politically celebrated ideals of …
Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective
Inbunden, 2007
1095 kr
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Agrifood biotechnology – the genetic transformation of plants and animals through recombinant means – has created controversy in the food system for more than twenty years. This thoroughly revised and amended edition of Paul B. Thompson’s path breaking study of ethical and philosophical issues …
Accessing and Sharing the Benefits of the Genomics Revolution
Av Peter W.B. Phillips, Chika B. Onwuekwe
Inbunden, 2007
1639 kr
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There is a veritable gold rush mentality in the life science world as scientists, entrepreneurs and multinationals are staking claims to the ‘code of life’ embodied in the world’s current stock of plants, animals, microbes and human populations.This edited volume explores the legal, economic and …
Ethics, Hunger and Globalization
In Search of Appropriate Policies
Av Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Peter Sandøe
Inbunden, 2007
1639 kr
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“Ethics, Hunger and Globalization” adds an ethics dimension to the debate and research about poverty, hunger, and globalization. Outstanding scholars and practitioners from several disciplines discuss what action is needed for ethics to play a bigger role in action by governments, civil society, …
Understanding Nature
Case Studies in Comparative Epistemology
Av Hub Zwart
Inbunden, 2008
1095 kr
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This summons clearly resonates with the “archetypical image” associated with water as a basic element, discussed in Chapter 2, water as the element of freedom, of mobility, of widening one’s horizon. Although Nietzsche himself refrained from doing what he summoned others to do, scientists like …
Legitimacy in European Nature Conservation Policy
Case Studies in Multilevel Governance
Av Jozef Keulartz, Gilbert Leistra
Inbunden, 2007
1008 kr
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Building forth upon recent developments in democracy theory that have identified multiple forms of legitimacy, this volume observes a EU-wide shift from output legitimacy to input and throughput legitimacy. Top down policy making is increasingly meeting local resistance. As a result, the importance …
Ethical Traceability and Communicating Food
Av Christian Coff, David Barling m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1966 kr
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The theme of this book evolved from the idea of linking three concepts around food: traceability, ethics and informed choice. We believe that the current devel- ment and implementation of traceability in the agri-food sector offers an interesting way not only of handling food safety but also of …
Ethics of Intensification
Agricultural Development and Cultural Change
Inbunden, 2008
1095 kr
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The Ethics of Agricultural Intensification: An Interdisciplinary and International Conversation Paul B. Thompson and John Otieno Ouko* Global agriculture faces a number of challenges as the world approaches the second decade of the third millennium. Predictions unilaterally indicate dramatic …
Aquaculture, Innovation and Social Transformation
Inbunden, 2008
1639 kr
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Keith Culver and David Castle Introduction Aquaculture is at the leading edge of a surprisingly polarized debate about the way we produce our food. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, aquaculture production has increased 8. 8% per year since 1970, far surpassing …
Sustainable Philosophy—The Work of Bryan Norton
Av Sahotra Sarkar, Ben A. Minteer
Häftad, 2018
1204 kr
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This book provides a richly interdisciplinary assessment of the thought and work of Bryan Norton, one of most innovative and influential environmental philosophers of the past thirty years. In landmark works such as Toward Unity Among Environmentalists and Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive …
Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Perspective
A Transpacific Dialogue
Av Paul B. Thompson, Kirill O. Thompson
Häftad, 2019
1422 kr
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This book brings together agricultural ethics scholars from the US, Japan and Taiwan to discuss crucial issues in agricultural ethics and sustainability ethics in comparative context. Agricultural ethics and sustainability ethics are wide-ranging and closely linked to environmental ethics, …
Food, Genetic Engineering and Philosophy of Technology
Magic Bullets, Technological Fixes and Responsibility to the Future
Häftad, 2019
627 kr
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This book describes specific, well-know controversies in the genetic modification debate and connects them to deeper philosophical issues in philosophy of technology. It contributes to the current, far-reaching deliberations about the future of food, agriculture and society. Controversies over …
African Environmental Ethics
A Critical Reader
Inbunden, 2019
1313 kr
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This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics. Critical issues such as the moral status of nature, African conceptions of animal moral status and rights, African conceptions of environmental justice, African relational …
African Environmental Ethics
A Critical Reader
Häftad, 2020
1313 kr
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This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics. Critical issues such as the moral status of nature, African conceptions of animal moral status and rights, African conceptions of environmental justice, African relational …
Hermeneutics of Human-Animal Relations in the Wake of Rewilding
The Ethical Guide to Ecological Discomforts
Inbunden, 2019
878 kr
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In consequence of significant social, political, economic, and demographic changes several wildlife species are currently growing in numbers and recolonizing Europe. While this is rightly hailed as a success of the environmental movement, the return of wildlife brings its own issues. As the animals …
Hermeneutics of Human-Animal Relations in the Wake of Rewilding
The Ethical Guide to Ecological Discomforts
Häftad, 2020
627 kr
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In consequence of significant social, political, economic, and demographic changes several wildlife species are currently growing in numbers and recolonizing Europe. While this is rightly hailed as a success of the environmental movement, the return of wildlife brings its own issues. As the animals …
Social Justice and Agricultural Innovation
Inbunden, 2020
551 kr
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Employing a social justice framework, this book examines the effects of innovation incentives and policies in agriculture. It addresses access to the objects of innovation, the direction of science and the type of innovations that are available, opportunities to participate in research and …
Social Justice and Agricultural Innovation
Häftad, 2021
551 kr
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Employing a social justice framework, this book examines the effects of innovation incentives and policies in agriculture. It addresses access to the objects of innovation, the direction of science and the type of innovations that are available, opportunities to participate in research and …
Food and Agricultural Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective
Inbunden, 2020
1204 kr
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This 3rd edition of Food and Agricultural Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective updates Thompson’s analysis to reflect the next generation of biotechnology, including synthetic biology, gene editing and gene drives. The first two editions of this book, published as Food Biotechnology in Ethical …
Food and Agricultural Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective
Häftad, 2021
1204 kr
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This 3rd edition of Food and Agricultural Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective updates Thompson’s analysis to reflect the next generation of biotechnology, including synthetic biology, gene editing and gene drives. The first two editions of this book, published as Food Biotechnology in Ethical …
Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene
Av Bernice Bovenkerk, Jozef Keulartz
Inbunden, 2021
551 kr
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This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationships with other …
