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Monocultures of the Mind (Record no. 2113)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9781856492188
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245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Monocultures of the Mind
Remainder of title	: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology
Statement of responsibility, etc.	/ Vandana Shiva
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Zed Books, London/NY; Third World Network, Penang;
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	1993
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	184p;
Dimensions	22x14cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc.	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. In lucid and accessible fashion, she examines the current threats to the planet's biodiversity and the environmental and human consequences of its erosion and replacement by monocultural production. She shows how the new Biodiversity Convention has been gravely undermined by a mixture of diplomatic dilution during the process of negotiation and Northern hi-tech interests making money out of the new biotechnologies. She explains what these technologies involve and gives examples of their impact in practice. She questions their claims to improving natural species for the good of all and highlights the ethical and environmental problems posed. Underlying her arguments is the view that the North's particular approach to scientific understanding has led to a system of monoculture in agriculture - a model that is not being foisted on the South, displacing its societies' ecologically sounder, indigenous and age-old experiences of truly sustainable food cultivation, forest management and animal husbandry. This rapidly accelerating process of technology and system transfer is impoverishing huge numbers of people, disrupting the social systems that provide them with security and dignity, and will ultimately result in a sterile planet in both North and South, In a policy intervention of potentially great significance, she calls instead for a halt, at international as well as local level, to the aid and market incentives to both large-scale destruction of habitats where biodiversity thrives and the introduction of centralised, homogenous systems of cultivation.
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note	English
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Topical term or geographic name entry element	GF75 Human ecology. Anthropogeography- Human influences on the environment
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Koha item type	Book
Source of classification or shelving scheme	Library of Congress Classification

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		Library of Congress Classification			Geography. Anthropology. Recreation.	SAF Reference Library	SAF Reference Library	10/23/1	SB15- Annalee Davis Reading Room		GF75 192.56	2113	01/12/2023	01/12/2023	Book