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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... tion of forests . If some of the local uses can be commercialised , they are given the status of ' minor products ' ; with timber and wood being treated as the ' major products ' in forestry . The creation of fragmented categories thus ...
... tion of climate and production of soil . An interesting value framework has thus been constructed which predetermines analysis and options . If the Third World poor , who derive their livelihoods directly from nature , only ' consume ...
... requested that the National Academy of Sciences give considera- tion to these matters . The undersigned members of a committee , acting on behalf of and with the endorsement of the Biotechnology and the Environment 97.
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 |