Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and BiotechnologyBloomsbury Academic, 1993 - 184 pages 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. |
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... eucalyptus trees on behalf of industry . Industrialists , foresters and bureaucrats loved the euca- lyptus because it grows straight and is excellent pulp wood , unlike the honge which shelters the soil with its profuse branches and ...
... Eucalyptus cannot compete with a number of indigenous fast growing species . When tall scientific claims about the growth rate of Eucalyptus were being used to convert rich natural forests to Eucalyptus monoculture planta- tions , on ...
... eucalyptus cer- tainly increased cash and commodity flows , but it resulted in a disastrous interruption of organic matter and water flows within the local ecosystem . Its proponents failed to calculate the costs in terms of the ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
9 | 32 |
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Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva Limited preview - 1993 |
Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva No preview available - 2011 |