Format:
1 online resource (532 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789086869398
Content:
Feeding the world's growing population in ways that are effective, ethical and socially just, and protect the natural systems on which all life depends is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. It forms the theme of this book of papers of the 2022 Edinburgh conference of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EURSAFE). The dramatic increases in the cost of energy, scarcities in resources and people, stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and international conflict, have brought home the vulnerability of our interlinked human systems at all levels. Climate change poses deeper longer term threats. Global competition drives fine-tuned and efficient systems, but time-proven local practices may show better resilience in such uncertain futures.The book reflects the sheer diversity of approaches and responses to these challenges, across a wide range of academic disciplines, provoking us to look at the issues in new ways. They reflect the varied standpoints of producers, retailers, regulators, farmers, vets, communities and citizens. The challenge to reach net zero carbon is addressed in papers assessing livestock systems, grasslands, land use and 'rewilding', food choices, meat eating and alternatives. Innovations such as genome editing, uses of seaweed and the use of data pose both possibilities and challenges. Animal ethics is a prominent theme, with a range of papers on animal-human relations, animal use in research and veterinary ethics.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Reviewers -- Table of contents -- Food system transformation: the need for food ethics -- Section 1. Transforming the food system sustainably and justly -- 1. Combining transition, social network and social-ecological system frameworks in view of transforming agrifood systems -- 2. Power, human rights and fresh produce: is due diligence failure a structural inevitability? -- 3. Addressing the political nature of agricultural sustainability transitions: lessons for governance -- 4. Climate change, vulnerability of food systems and institutional transformations in Senegal -- 5. Taking value-landscapes seriously -- 6. What is (not) the point of just transition in food systems? -- 7. Neoliberal conditionality to the European agricultural system: free trade agreements as a paradigm -- 8. Feminist political ecology of agricultural changes in Myanmar -- 9. Changing beekeeping seasons in Vestland, Norway -- 10. Sustainable school food procurement in England: when there is a will, there is a way -- 11. Assessing the food security implications of climate change on global food trade -- 12. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food and livelihood security of agricultural households in India -- 13. Food system resilience and governance: a pork story in China -- 14. Organisational resilience and COVID lockdown: a multi-case study from restaurants in Wuhan, China -- Section 2. Land and wild places -- 15. On the forms of harm stemming from the instrumentalization of large-scale ecosystems -- 16. Using domesticated animals in rewilding projects: what does the public think? -- 17. Do we need a new land ethics? -- 18. Challenging our thinking about wild animals with common-sense ethical principles -- 19. Urban nature experiences for public health: an embodied perspective -- 20. Debating planetary boundaries.
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Additional Edition:
9789086863877
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9789086863877
Language:
English
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