Climate change and sustainable development Ethical perspectives on land use and food production /

Climate change is a major framing condition for sustainable development of agriculture and food. Global food production is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time it is among the sectors worst affected by climate change. This book brings together a multidisciplina...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Potthast, Thomas (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Meisch, Simon (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers : Imprint: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2012.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • EurSafe 2012 Committees
  • Preface
  • Keynote contributions Domains of climate ethics: an overview
  • The global governance of climate change, forests, water, and food: normative challenges
  • The willed blindness of humans: animal welfare and beyond
  • Section 1. Sustainability: general issues
  • Which sustainability suits you?
  • The value(s) of sustainability within a pragmatically justified theory of values: considerations in the context of climate change
  • Towards an ecological space paradigm: fair and sustainable distribution of environmental resources
  • Section 2. Property rights and commons
  • Addressing the commons: normative approaches to common pool resources
  • A global solution to land grabbing? An institutional cosmopolitan approach
  • Climate change, intellectual property rights and global justice
  • Section 3. Global warming and climate change
  • Global warming, ethics, and cultural criticism
  • The ethics of climate change denial
  • World wide views on global warming: evaluation of a public debate
  • The truth is that we have an inconvenient nature
  • Section 4. Ethics, adaptation & mitigation
  • A climate tax on meat?
  • Acting now or later? Determining an adequate decision strategy for mitigation measures addressing methane emissions from ruminants
  • Equal per capita entitlements to greenhouse gas emissions: a justice based-critique
  • Section 5. Ethics of non-agricultural land-management
  • Managing nature parks as an ethical challenge: a proposal for a practical tool to identify fundamental questions
  • The citizens forest model: climate change, preservation of natural resources and forest ethics
  • ‘Good change’ in the woods: conceptual and ethical perspectives on integrating sustainable land-use and biodiversity protection
  • Section 6. Environmental & agricultural ethics
  • A collective virtue approach to agricultural ethics
  • Providing grounds for agricultural ethics: the wider philosophical significance of plant life integrity
  • Do algae have moral standing? On exploitation, ethical extension and climate change mitigation
  • Animistic pragmatism and native ways of knowing: adaptive strategies for responding to environmental change and overcoming the struggle for food in the Arctic
  • Section 7. Intensive vs. extensive production: animal welfare, efficiency and environmental implications
  • Sustainability, animal welfare and ethical food policy: a comparative analysis of sustainable intensification and holistic integrative naturalism
  • ‘All that is solid melts into air’: the Dutch debate about factory farming
  • Adaptive capacities from an animal welfare perspective
  • Agriculture’s 6 Fs and the need for more intensive agriculture
  • Feed efficiencies in animal production: a non-numerical analysis
  • For the benefit of the land? Ethical aspects of the impact of meat production on nature, the environment and the countryside
  • Fewer burps in your burgers or more birds in the bush?
  • Inconvenient truths and agricultural emissions
  • Section 8. Agro-energy
  • The ethics of using agricultural land to produce biomass: using energy like it grows on trees
  • Setting the rules of the game: ethical and legal issues raised by bioenergy governance methods
  • India’s agrofuel policies from a feminist-environmentalist perspective
  • Grafting our biobased economies on African roots?
  • Section 9. Food policy
  • Transformation of food governance models: perspectives arisen from a food citizenship
  • Food policy and climate change: uncovering the missing links
  • Sustainable food policies for the EU27: results from the EUPOPP project
  • An ethical argument for vigilant prevention
  • Liability versus responsibility: the food industry case
  • Integrated assessments of emerging food technologies – some options and challenges
  • Addressing farmers or traders: socio-ethical issues in developing a national action plan for sustainable crop protection
  • Section 10. Food in context
  • This is or is not food: framing malnutrition, obesity and healthy eating
  • Food as art: poiēsis and the importance of soft impacts
  • Conflicting food production values: global free market or local production?
  • Toward sustainable agriculture and food production: an ethically sound vision for the future
  • Section 11. Fish for food
  • Changing an iconic species by biotechnology: the case of Norwegian salmon
  • Why German consumers need to reconsider their preferences: the ethical argument for aquaculture
  • Fish for food in a challenged climate: ethical reflections
  • Section 12. Food and sustainability
  • A theoretical framework to analyse sustainability relevant food choices from a cultural perspective: caring for food and sustainability in a pluralistic society
  • Food, sustainability and ecological responsibility: hunger as the negation of human rights
  • Cultured meat: will it separate us from nature?
  • Section 13. Consumers and consuming
  • Gender differences in pro-social behaviour: the case of Fair Trade food consumers
  • Employing a normative conception of sustainability to reason and specify green consumerism
  • Are we morally obliged to become vegans?
  • Food ethics: new religion or common sense?
  • Section 14. Science and governance
  • Climate change and biodiversity: a need for ‘reflexive interdisciplinarity’
  • Changing societies: ethical questions raised by ANR-funded research programs and projects related to climate and environmental change
  • Examining the inclusion of ethics and social issues in bioscience research: concepts of ‘reflection’ in science
  • Biochar for smallholder farmers in East Africa: arguing for transdisciplinary research
  • Section 15. Values for governance
  • Biotechnology and a new approach to a theory of values
  • Towards a value-reflexive governance of water
  • Mapping core values and ethical principles for livelihoods in Asia
  • Section 16. Biotechnology in context
  • Conflict cloud green genetic engineering: structuring and visualizing the controversy over biotechnology in agriculture
  • Maize as a cultural element of identity and as a biological being: narratives of Mexican children on the transgenic maize debate and the importance of knowing the context
  • Implementation of ethical standards in a cattle improvement company
  • Section 17. Animal ethics
  • Leaving the ivory tower or back into theory? Learning from paradigm cases in animal ethics
  • From just using animals to a justification of animal use: the intrinsic value of animals as a confusing start
  • Daniel Haybron’s theory of welfare and its implications for animal welfare assessment
  • Cognitive relatives yet moral strangers? Killing great apes and dolphins for food
  • Assessing the animal ethics review process
  • Investigating the existence of an ‘Animal Kuznets curve’ in the EU-15 countries
  • The Chinese animal: from food to pet
  • Section 18. Ethics teaching
  • Bringing animal ethics teaching into the public domain: the Animalogos experience
  • Teaching sustainability and ethics
  • Teaching sustainable development and environmental ethics: the IBMB-concept of bringing theory and practical cases together
  • Section 19. Ethical matrix and learning instruments
  • The Mepham Matrix and the importance of institutions in food and agricultural ethics
  • The ethical matrix as an instrument for teaching and evaluation
  • Food ethics for an active citizenry: AgroFood Democracy – an active learning tool
  • Author index
  • Keyword index.