The Spirit of the Soil
Agriculture and Environmental Ethics
In this second edition of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, Paul B. Thompson reviews four worldviews that shape competing visions for agriculture. Productionists have sought increasing yields-to make two seeds grow where only one grew before-while traditional visions of good farming have stressed stewardship. These traditional visions have been challenged by two more worldviews: a call for a total cost accounting for farming and an advocacy for a holistic perspective. Thompson argues that an environmentally defensible systems approach must draw upon all four worldviews, recognizing their flaws and synthesizing thei…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-19687-7
- EAN: 9781317196877
- Produktnummer: 25429201
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'206 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Paul B. Thompson has done research and teaching on the environmental ethics of agriculture and food systems for over 35 years. He was a founding member and former President of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, and a two- time winner of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association's Award for Excellence in Communication. Prior to assuming his present post at Michigan State, he held faculty positions in philosophy at Texas A&M University and Purdue University.
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