Ethics and Sustainable Agriculture
Bridging the Ecological Gaps
Ethics and Sustainable Agriculture
Bridging the Ecological Gaps
This book describes the alarming condition of agriculture in the Anthropocene, when the ethical conception of agriculture as a service of common utility for both society and environment has progressively been marginalized. The ethical utility of agriculture has been sidetracked with the increasing industrialisation of society, the involvement of agriculture in the business-as-usual economy, and the consequential environmental and societal impacts it has had. Thus, re-establishing a meaningful bridge between ethics and agriculture is necessary. A relatively new science (ecology) with both a new epistemological tool (that of the ecosystem concept), and a unique narrative of sustainable development, can help bridge this gap.
This book focuses on ethics as a lever for raising scientific, technical, social, economic and political solutions to adopt in agriculture as a model of symbiotic relationships between man and nature. It provides a detailed discussion of the ecological intensification practices in order to maximize ecological and ethical services, wherein agroecosystems will follow.
This book focuses on ethics as a lever for raising scientific, technical, social, economic and political solutions to adopt in agriculture as a model of symbiotic relationships between man and nature. It provides a detailed discussion of the ecological intensification practices in order to maximize ecological and ethical services, wherein agroecosystems will follow.
Preface.- Introduction.- Ethics structure and goals.- The emergence of ecological awareness.- Development of ecological awareness.- The emergence of ecosystem theory.- The ecosystem concept.- The establishment of the ecosystem theory.- Research and education.- International policy and ecological economics.- Ethics of sustainable development.- Natural capital, ecosystem services and ecological footprint.- The role of education.- Agriculture and sustainable development.- Agroecosystem epistemology and ontology.- Energetics.- Matter cycling.- Biodiversity.- Sustainable agriculture.- Site-specificity and tradition.- Domestication and adaptation.- Terracing for ecosystem domestication.- Sustainable agriculture as a turning point of the human predicament.- Agroecology as a transdisciplinary field of cooperation.- Ecological intensification principles and practices.- Ecological intensification through planned biodiversity.- Ecological intensification: the role of hedgerows.- Valuing the performances of agroecosystem ecological intensification.- Institutional patterns of agriculture ecological intensification in Europe: the role of Universities.- Indicators of ecological intensification in contrasting farming systems.- Ecological intensification in animal husbandry.- Ecological intensification of human diet.- Ecological intensification in theology of creation and food ethics.- Conclusions.- References.- Index.
Caporali, Fabio
| ISBN | 978-3-030-76685-6 |
|---|---|
| Artikelnummer | 9783030766856 |
| Medientyp | Buch |
| Auflage | 1st ed. 2021 |
| Copyrightjahr | 2022 |
| Verlag | Springer, Berlin |
| Umfang | XIV, 267 Seiten |
| Abbildungen | XIV, 267 p. 92 illus., 90 illus. in color. |
| Sprache | Englisch |
