Format:
1 online resource (221 pages)
ISBN:
9781000286236
Series Statement:
Earthscan Food and Agriculture Ser.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- About the author -- Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Glossary of selected Greek terms -- 1 Orientation: the challenge and the project -- A. About this book - third in a series -- B. Cultural reform and "deep agroecology" -- C. Using the Homeric epics -- D. Structure and theme -- Notes -- 2 The Iliad, the Odyssey, agriculture, and climate change -- A. Culture: use it or lose it -- B. Iliad: a summary-reminder -- C. Odyssey: a summary-reminder -- D. The crisis of agriculture -- E. The climate crisis -- Notes -- 3 Achilles: mênis, kleos, and aristeia -- A. The rage of Achilles -- B. The "embassy to Achilles" -- C. Rejecting a warrior system of values? -- D. The shame of Achilles -- E. Achilles in our day -- Notes -- 4 Agroecological husbandry: new roots for agriculture -- A. Perennial roots -- B. Why only now? -- C. Changing agriculture - conceptual considerations -- D. Practical considerations - progress and prospects -- E. Insights from the Iliad - how to transform agriculture -- Notes -- 5 Homo sapiens nobilis: trustees for the athanatoi -- A. Athanatoi and thnêtoi - pros and cons -- B. Humans, nobility, and responsibility -- C. The public trust doctrine and the common heritage of mankind principle -- D. Keystone species? ... Ecospheric trustees? -- Notes -- 6 Eco-states and anthro-states: new roots for sovereignty -- A. Beyond the Hobbesian view -- B. Competing and complementing loyalties -- C. Biomes, ecoregions, and eco-states - new world maps for sovereignty -- D. Eco-state #8 and Eco-state #12 - Is bioregionalism personal? -- Notes -- 7 Odysseus: mêtis, nostos, and polútropos -- A. Odysseus as polútropos and displaying mêtis -- B. Humanity as polútropos and displaying mêtis -- C. Eco-nostos -- D. Will Penelope wait?.
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Additional Edition:
9780367622190
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780367622190
Language:
English
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