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. ' Social ' forestry and the ' miracle ' tree Social forestry projects are a good example of single - species , single commodity production plantations , based on reductionist ...
... social forestry programmes cannot be restricted to the woody biomass production for com- mercial use . It must , instead , be specific to the end use of biomass . The crisis in biomass for animal feed , quite evidently , cannot be ...
... social consequences since diversity is the basis of ecological and social stability . Social and material systems devoid of diversity are - vulnerable to collapse and breakdown . i ) Ecological vulnerability of monocultures of ...
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 |