Overview
- The only work presenting East-West perspectives in agrarian and environmental ethics, agricultural biotechnology, food ethics and alternative agriculture
- Provides a useful introduction to agrarian thought and values in East Asia
- Includes reports on recent fieldwork in preserving agricultural heritage and building consensus on sustainable farming in East Asia
Part of the book series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics (LEAF, volume 27)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Keywords
- east asian ethics
- agricultural ethics
- agrarian utopianism
- east asian philosophy
- zhuangzi and agricultural ethics
- environmental virtue ethics
- pluralism in environmental ethics
- food ethics and food security
- alternative agriculture
- east asian agricultural ethics
- environmental consensus building
- agricultura and chinese culture
- animal welfare and climate change
- conservation of agricultural heritage
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Paul B. Thompson holds the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University, where he serves on the faculty in the departments of Philosophy, Community Sustainability and Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and has held posts at Texas A&M University and Purdue University. Thompson’s research and teaching has focused on ethical and philosophical topics in food and agriculture. He is the author or co-author of over two hundred articles in refereed journals or scholarly books. His book From Field to Fork: Food Ethics for Everyone was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. It won the “Book of the Year” award for 2015 from the North American Society for Social Philosophy. His book The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics was released in a revised and updated second edition in 2017.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Perspective
Book Subtitle: A Transpacific Dialogue
Editors: Paul B. Thompson, Kirill O. Thompson
Series Title: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92603-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92602-5Published: 03 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06471-6Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92603-2Published: 24 July 2018
Series ISSN: 1570-3010
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1737
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 221
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agricultural Ethics, Sustainable Development, Agriculture