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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... Destruction of Diversity as ' Weeds ' The destruction of biological diversity is intrinsic to the very manner in which the reductionist forestry paradigm conceives of the forest . The forest is defined as ' normal ' according to the ...
... destruction of biodiversity : - The first is habitat destruction due to internationally financed mega - projects such as the building of dams and highways , and mining operations in forested regions rich in biological diversity . The ...
... destruction which are global in character , and focuses on secondary and minor causes which are often local in character . It therefore blames the victims of biodiversity destruction for the destruction , and places responsibility for ...
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 |