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Author : Vandana Shiva
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Corporate Hijack of Biodiversity written by Vandana Shiva and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Danny Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317753291
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Biodiversity written by Danny Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world relies on very few crop and animal species for agriculture and to supply its food needs. In recent decades, there has been increased appreciation of the risk this implies for food security and quality, especially in times of environmental change. As a result, agricultural biodiversity has moved to the top of research and policy agendas. This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge of agricultural biodiversity in a series of specially commissioned chapters. It draws on multiple disciplines including plant and animal genetics, ecology, crop and animal science, food studies and nutrition, as well as social science subjects which explore the socio-economic, cultural, institutional, legal and policy aspects of agricultural biodiversity. It focuses not only on the core requirements to deliver a sustainable agriculture and food supply, but also highlights the additional ecosystem services provided by a diverse and resilient agricultural landscape and farming practices. The book provides an indispensable reference textbook for a wide range of courses in agriculture, ecology, biodiversity conservation and environmental studies.
Author : Dr. Ritu Dhingra
Publisher : Selfypage Developers Pvt Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9395632011
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (956 download)
Download or read book Explorations into Sustainable Development with Forest and Biodiversity Conservation written by Dr. Ritu Dhingra and published by Selfypage Developers Pvt Ltd.. This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forests being the lungs of planet Earth are the most important ecosystems. They act as carbon sinks and sustain a huge amount of carbon in them. They play an extremely important role for the survival of the living beings on this earth. From human beings to the flora and fauna of the earth’s ecosystem depend on the forests in some way or the other. Forests are the repositories of enormous biodiversity on this planet. They are an adobe to millions of species of animals including human beings, plants and microorganisms. They also give massive ecosystem services to mankind and to all the living beings thriving on this earth. They regulate climate, water cycles and carbon sequestering on this planet. They even provide a livelihood to human beings all over the world. They check global warming on this earth. The parameter of sustainable development is that forest and biodiversity is conserved for the coming generations also. Forests are the most important repositories of terrestrial biological diversity. The diversity of life amongst the living beings and their distinct habitats, the interactions between the various components of the biodiversity makes this planet a habitable place for various life forms. Forest conservation is extremely important for intergenerational equity and the principle of sustainable development paves the way. The forests especially in the domains of forestry and agriculture provide 40% of the world’s economy. This is due to the biological diversity in the forest ecosystems. 70% of the world’s poor populace who live in rural areas is directly dependent on biodiversity for their livelihood. A rough estimate of 60 million indigenous folks are somehow reliant on forests for their daily needs. The Supreme Court of India in Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra v. State of Uttar Pradesh elucidated the importance of ecosystem services as provided by the forests.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Corporate Hijack of Land written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report on corporate take-over of land: Special Economic Zones (SEZs); urban and peri-urban real estate; and mining and industry, especially in Tribal areas.
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Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004227075
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Natural Resources and the Green Economy written by and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering that natural resources or green capital are the drivers of globalisation, this book focuses on the link between investment, trade and natural resource management in the context of the growing economic inequalities between states.
Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623170419
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Earth Democracy written by Vandana Shiva and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned environmental activist and physicist Vandana Shiva calls for a radical shift in the values that govern democracies, condemning the role that unrestricted capitalism has played in the destruction of environments and livelihoods. She explores the issues she helped bring to international attention—genetic food engineering, culture theft, and natural resource privatization—uncovering their links to the rising tide of fundamentalism, violence against women, and planetary death. Struggles on the streets of Seattle and Cancun and in homes and farms across the world have yielded a set of principles based on inclusion, nonviolence, reclaiming the commons, and freely sharing the earth’s resources. These ideals, which Dr. Shiva calls “Earth Democracy,” serve as an urgent call to peace and as the basis for a just and sustainable future.
Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813166799
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Stolen Harvest written by Vandana Shiva and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the farmer, the seed is not merely the source of future plants and food; it is a vehicle through which culture and history can be preserved and spread to future generations. For centuries, farmers have evolved crops and produced an incredible diversity of plants that provide life-sustaining nutrition. In India alone, the ingenuity of farmers has produced over 200,000 varieties of rice, many of which now line store shelves around the world. This productive tradition, however, is under attack as globalized, corporate regimes increasingly exploit intellectual property laws to annex these sustaining seeds and remove them from the public sphere. In Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, Shiva explores the devastating effects of commercial agriculture and genetic engineering on the food we eat, the farmers who grow it, and the soil that sustains it. This prescient critique and call to action covers some of the most pressing topics of this ongoing dialogue, from the destruction of local food cultures and the privatization of plant life, to unsustainable industrial fish farming and safety concerns about corporately engineered foods. The preeminent agricultural activist and scientist of a generation, Shiva implores the farmers and consumers of the world to make a united stand against the genetically modified crops and untenable farming practices that endanger the seeds and plants that give us life.
Author : Michael M. J. Fischer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822390795
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Anthropological Futures written by Michael M. J. Fischer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-26 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays, which are both speculative and experimental, Fischer seeks to break new ground for anthropology by illuminating the field’s broad analytical capacity and its attentiveness to emergent cultural systems. Fischer is particularly concerned with cultural anthropology’s interactions with science studies, and throughout the book he investigates how emerging knowledge formations in molecular biology, environmental studies, computer science, and bioengineering are transforming some of anthropology’s key concepts including nature, culture, personhood, and the body. In an essay on culture, he uses the science studies paradigm of “experimental systems” to consider how the social scientific notion of culture has evolved as an analytical tool since the nineteenth century. Charting anthropology’s role in understanding and analyzing the production of knowledge within the sciences since the 1990s, he highlights anthropology’s aptitude for tracing the transnational collaborations and multisited networks that constitute contemporary scientific practice. Fischer investigates changing ideas about cultural inscription on the human body in a world where genetic engineering, robotics, and cybernetics are constantly redefining our understanding of biology. In the final essay, Fischer turns to Kant’s philosophical anthropology to reassess the object of study for contemporary anthropology and to reassert the field’s primacy for answering the largest questions about human beings, societies, culture, and our interactions with the world around us. In Anthropological Futures, Fischer continues to advance what Clifford Geertz, in reviewing Fischer’s earlier book Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, called “a broad new agenda for cultural description and political critique.”
Author : Benjamin Peary Pal
Publisher : Academic Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9788171886326
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Search for New Genes written by Benjamin Peary Pal and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers presented at the Symposium; festschrift for Benjamin Peary Pal, 1906-1989, Indian agricultural scientist.
Author : Richard Welford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134176708
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Hijacking Environmentalism written by Richard Welford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text demonstrates how businesses and institutions continue to operate outside the ecological carrying capacity of the environment, and highlights the need for participation and social innovation on their part. It asserts that senior executives and middle management in large corporations have often sought, deliberately or unconsciously, to block the advancement of environmentalism. Industry has reconstructed the more radical environmental agenda to suit its own purposes, in effect hijacking it, by taking it out of its traditional discourse and placing it in a liberal-productivist framework. The book concludes by examining the way forward for more sustainable business, presenting new models that place greater emphasis on issues such as equity and ethics.
Author : Sheldon Krimsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742543416
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age written by Sheldon Krimsky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors in this book, with their carefully reasoned calls for a genetic bill of rights, seem to me to be making a powerful conservative argument, and proposing amendments far more sensible, human, and rational than the zealotry promoted by men like More. They are assuming there is great value in human beings as we have known them, in plants and food crops as we have slowly and within clear boundaries develop them over millennia, in the relationship between human being and the natural world.
Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645021882
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Terra Viva written by Vandana Shiva and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “All of us who care about the future of Planet Earth must be grateful to Vandana Shiva.”—Jane Goodall, UN Messenger of Peace A powerful new memoir published to coincide with Vandana Shiva’s 70th birthday. Vandana Shiva has been described in many ways: the “Gandhi of Grain,” “a rock star” in the battle against GMOs, and “the most powerful voice” for people of the developing world. For over four decades she has vociferously advocated for diversity, indigenous knowledge, localization, and real democracy; she has been at the forefront of seed saving, food sovereignty, and connecting the dots between the destruction of nature, the polarization of societies, and indiscriminate corporate greed. In Terra Viva, Dr. Shiva shares her most memorable campaigns, alongside some of the world’s most celebrated activists and environmentalists, all working toward a livable planet and healthier democracies. For the very first time, she also recounts the stories of her childhood in post-partition India—the influence of the Himalayan forests she roamed; her parents, who saw no difference in the education of boys and girls at a time when this was not the norm; and the Chipko movement, whose women were “the real custodians of biodiversity-related knowledge.” Throughout, Shiva’s pursuit of a unique intellectual path marrying quantum physics with science, technology, and environmental policy will captivate the reader. Terra Viva is a celebration of a remarkable life and a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges we face moving forward—including those revealed by the COVID crisis, the privatization of biotechnology, and the commodification of our biological and natural resources. “Vandana Shiva is an expert [on the dangers of globalization] whose analysis has helped us understand this situation much more deeply.”—Russell Brand “One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.”—The Guardian
Author : Ronald Sandler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137349085
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Ethics and Emerging Technologies written by Ronald Sandler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First and only undergraduate textbook that addresses the social and ethical issues associated with a wide array of emerging technologies, including genetic modification, human enhancement, geoengineering, robotics, virtual reality, artificial meat, neurotechnologies, information technologies, nanotechnology, sex selection, and more.
Author : Rajni Gupta
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
ISBN 13 : 8179933598
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (799 download)
Download or read book Plant Taxonomy written by Rajni Gupta and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prithipalsingh, Indian taxonomist; contributed articles.
Author : Gerald L. Houseman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739127144
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Economics in a Changed Universe written by Gerald L. Houseman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how the revolution in economics, wrought by Joseph E. Stiglitz and the economics of information, has provided us with new methods and answers to solving economic problems, especially for the poor nations of the world. It brings 230 years of economic thought and folklore into question and shows us that 'free enterprise' and the 'market' that we once respected does not exist.
Author : Narasimharao, B. Pandu Ranga
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522519769
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Science Education and University Outreach as a Tool for Regional Development written by Narasimharao, B. Pandu Ranga and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education institutions play a vital role in their surrounding communities. Besides providing a space for enhanced learning opportunities, universities can utilize their resources for social and economic interests. The Handbook of Research on Science Education and University Outreach as a Tool for Regional Development is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on the expanded role of universities for community engagement initiatives. Providing in-depth coverage across a range of topics, such as resource sharing, educational administration, and technological applications, this handbook is ideally designed for educators, graduate students, professionals, academics, and practitioners interested in the active involvement of education institutions in community outreach.
Author : University of California, Davis. School of Law
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)
Download or read book U.C. Davis Law Review written by University of California, Davis. School of Law and published by . This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
