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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... economic development . The economic values of biological resources are then divided into the following categories : ' consumptive value ' - value of products consumed di- rectly without passing through a market , such as firewood ...
... economic impacts on employments and commodity exports . Biotechnology Industry S - N flow of biological resources as raw material Box 1 in Private Sector in the North Box 2 N - S flow of biological commodities Biodiversity in the Third ...
... economic and technological development which demands in- creasing withdrawals of natural resources and generates increas- ing addition of pollutants while marginalising and dispossessing an increasing number of people from 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 |