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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... programmes , the eucalyptus was proposed world- wide as a ' miracle ' tree . However , local communities everywhere seemed to think otherwise . The main thrust of conservation struggles like Chipko is that forests and trees are life ...
... programmes for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity or adapt for this purpose existing strategies , plans or programmes which shall reflect , inter alia , the measures set out in this Convention relevant to the ...
... programmes ; and ( b ) Cooperate , as appropriate , with other States and international organizations in developing educational and public awareness programmes , with respect to conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity ...
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 |