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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Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology Vandana Shiva. South to bypass regulation and public control . The ... regulatory constraints , public protests and court injunctions domestically , and have started to conduct their release ...
... regulation of biotechnology is a major reason for the Bush decision to not sign the treaty . The recent record of the US has been a systematic dismantling of the regulatory framework for ensuring environmental and health security in the ...
... regulation related to people's health and environmental safety . This clause which protects the envi- ronment and ... regulation on biotechnology industry , but insisted on patent regulation to protect industry profits . It wants to give ...
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 |