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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... Biodiversity erosion starts a chain reaction . The disappear- ance of a species is related to the extinction of innumerable other species with which it is inter - related through food webs and food chains , and about which humanity is ...
... biodiversity is inadequate for conservation both because it values biodiversity only as a com- modity , but also because it perceives biodiversity in a fragmented and atomised form . It views biodiversity merely as an arithmetic ...
... Biodiversity and Biotechnology Linkages Two thirds of the world's biodiversity lies in the Third World . The most significant relationship between biodiversity and biotechnology is that the former acts as a raw material base for ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
9 | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Other editions - View all
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 |