Climate change and sustainable development : Ethical perspectives on land use and food production. 1st ed. 2012

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電子ブック

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edited by Thomas Potthast, Simon Meisch

出版情報:

Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers : Imprint: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2012

著者名:

• Potthast, Thomas.
• Meisch, Simon.
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ISBN:

9789086867530 [9086867537]    

注記:

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
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 multidisciplinary group of authors exploring the ethical dimensions of climate change and food. Conceptual clarifications provide a necessary basis for putting sustainable development into practice. Adaptation and mitigation demand altering both agricultural and consumption practices. Intensive vs. extensive production is reassessed with regard to animal welfare, efficiency and environmental implications. Property rights pay an ever-increasing role, as do shifting land-use practices, agro-energy, biotechnology, food policy to green consumerism. And, last but not least, tools are suggested for teaching agricultural and food ethics. Notwithstanding the plurality of ethical analyses and their outcome, it becomes apparent that govern

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