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Climate change and sustainable development

Ethical perspectives on land use and food production

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Potthast

    1. International Centre for Ethics in the Science and Humanities (IZEW), Tübingen University, Germany

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  2. Simon Meisch
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  • Brings together a multidisciplinary group of authors exploring the ethical dimensions of climate change and food
  • Tools are suggested for teaching agricultural and food ethics
  • Intended to serve as a stimulating collection that will contribute to debate and reflection on the sustainable future of agriculture and food production in the face of global change

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Table of contents (79 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-19
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  3. Sustainability: general issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Which sustainability suits you?

      • R. Boonen, S. Aerts, J. De Tavernier
      Pages 43-48

    3. The value(s) of sustainability within a pragmatically justified theory of values: considerations in the context of climate change

      • R. Beck, S. Meisch, T. Potthast
      Pages 49-54

    4. Towards an ecological space paradigm: fair and sustainable distribution of environmental resources

      • W. Peeters, J. Dirix, S. Sterckx
      Pages 55-60

  4. Property rights and commons

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Addressing the commons: normative approaches to common pool resources

      • A. Kallhoff
      Pages 63-68

    3. A global solution to land grabbing? An institutional cosmopolitan approach

      • K. Høyer Toft
      Pages 69-74

    4. Climate change, intellectual property rights and global justice

      • C. A. Timmermann, H. van den Belt
      Pages 75-79

  5. Global warming and climate change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Global warming, ethics, and cultural criticism

      • M. Oksanen
      Pages 83-89

    3. The ethics of climate change denial

      • B. Gremmen
      Pages 90-94

    4. World wide views on global warming: evaluation of a public debate

      • B. Bovenkerk, F. W. A. Brom
      Pages 95-99

    5. The truth is that we have an inconvenient nature

      • P. F. Van Haperen, B. Gremmen, J. Jacobs
      Pages 100-105

  6. Ethics, adaptation & mitigation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. A climate tax on meat?

      • A. Nordgren
      Pages 109-114
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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 governance of agri-food is faced by new needs and new approaches of bringing in the value dimension much more explicitly. This book is intended to serve as a stimulating collection that will contribute to debate and reflection on the sustainable future of agriculture and food production in the face of global change.

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  • International Centre for Ethics in the Science and Humanities (IZEW), Tübingen University, Germany

    Thomas Potthast

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