Format:
1 online resource (551 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789086866168
Content:
Sustainability has become an issue widely debated in many countries. Given the central role of food supply and the emotional relationship that modern mankind still has to its food, sustainability is seen as a value which has to be maintained throughout food supply chains. The complexity of modern food systems invokes a variety of ethical implications which emerge from contrasts between ideals, perceptions and the conditions of technical processes within food systems, and the concerns connected to this. This book covers a broad range of aspects within the general issue of sustainable food production and ethics. Linking different academic disciplines, topics range from reflections about the roots of sustainability and the development of concepts and approaches to globalisation and resilience of food systems as well as specific ethical aspects of organic farming and animal welfare. Modern technologies which are intensely advocated by certain stakeholder groups and their societal challenges are addressed, as are many other specific cases of food production and processing, consumer perception and marketing.
Content:
Intro -- EurSafe 2007 Committees -- Preface: Sustainable food production and ethics -- Werner Zollitsch and Christoph Winckler -- Table of contents -- Keynote papers -- On sustainability, dogmas, and (new) historical roots for environmental ethics -- Ben A. Minteer -- How do the ethical values of organic agriculture relate to standards and to current practice? -- Susanne Padel -- Animal welfare and intensive animal production: are they compatible? -- David Fraser -- Animal welfare in intensive and sustainable animal production systems -- Vonne Lund -- Ethics and action: a relational perspective on food trends and consumer concerns -- Unni Kjærnes -- Coexistence? What kind of agriculture do we want? -- Louise W.M. Luttikholt -- Coexistence and ethics: NIMBY-arguments reconsidered -- Matthias Kaiser -- Vertical gene flow in the context of risk/safety assessment and co-existence -- A. De Schrijver1, Y. Devos2 and M. Sneyers1 -- Part 1 - Theoretical, conceptual and foundational issues: concepts and approaches -- Ethical bases of sustainability -- Paul B. Thompson -- Building a sustainable future for animal agriculture: an environmental virtue ethic of care approach within the philosophy of technology -- Raymond Anthony -- Emergence and auto-organisation: revising our concepts of growth, development and evolution toward a science of sustainability -- Sylvie Pouteau -- Values behind biodiversity: ends in themselves or knowledge-based attitudes -- Arne Sveinson Haugen -- Part 2 - Theoretical, conceptual and foundational issues: assessment and models -- A structuring pathway to tackling ethical problems -- Michael Zichy -- Standing on the shoulders of a giant: the promise of multi-criteria mapping as a decision-support framework in food ethics -- Volkert Beekman, Erik de Bakker and Ronald de Graaff.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789086860463
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789086860463
Language:
English
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