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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... species are as fast growing as , and in some cases even more than , the much coveted Eucalyptus . ' In justification he provided a long list of indigenous fast growing species which had growth rates exceeding that of the Eucalyptus ...
... species being lost . Wilson ( 1988 ) has estimated that the current extinction rate is 1000 species a year . By the 1990s , the figure is expected to rise to ten thousand species a year ( one species an hour ) . During the next 30 years ...
... species , or wilderness ; required by migratory species ; of social , economic , cultural or scientific importance ; or , which are representative , unique or associated with key evolutionary or other biological processes ; 2. Species ...
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 |