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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... interests that an attempt was made to control exploitation . In 1865 , the first Indian Forest Act ( VII of 1865 ) was passed by the supreme Legislative Council , which authorised the Government to appropriate forests from the local ...
... interest and ecological in nature . The com- mercial interest has the primary objective of maximising exchange value through the extraction of commercially valuable species . Forest ecosystems are therefore reduced to the timber of ...
... interests or there is a disagreement as to whether they are of the same interest , they shall appoint their members separately . Article 3 If any appointments by the parties are not made within two months of the date of the request to ...
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 |