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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... causes for the large scale destruction of biodiversity : - The first is habitat destruction due to internationally ... cause for the destruction of biodiversity in areas under cultivation is the technological and economic push to replace ...
... Causes of Biodiversity Erosion The dominant view ignores the primary causes of biodiversity destruction and instead focuses on secondary causes such as population 72 Monocultures of the Mind 1222.
... causes of destruction identified above . Effects of Biodiversity Erosion The erosion of biodiversity has serious ecological and social consequences since diversity is the basis of ecological and social stability . Social and material ...
Contents
The Disappeared Knowledge Systems | 9 |
The Destruction of Diversity as Weeds | 22 |
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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 |