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.
<i> Preface</i><br>1.Introduction<br>2.Ethics structure and goals<br>3.The emergence of ecological awareness<br>4.Development of ecological awareness4.1The emergence of ecosystem theory4.1.1The ecosystem concept 4.2The establishment of the ecosystem theory4.2.1Research and education4.2.2International policy and ecological economics4.3Ethics of sustainable development4.3.1 Natural capital, ecosystem services and ecological footprint4.3.2 The role of education<br>5.Agriculture and sustainable development5.1Agroecosystem epistemology and ontology5.1.1Energetics5.1.2Matter cycling5.1.3Biodiversity<br>6.Sustainable agriculture6.1Site-specificity and tradition6.1.1Domestication and adaptation6.1.2Terracing for ecosystem domestication6.2Sustainable agriculture as a turning point of the human predicament6.3Agroecology as a transdisciplinary field of cooperation6.4Ecological intensification principles and practices6.4.1Ecological intensification through planned biodiversity6.4.2Ecological intensification: the role of hedgerows6.4.3Valuing the performances of agroecosystem ecological intensification6.5Institutional patterns of agriculture ecological intensification in Europe: the role of Universities6.5.1 Indicators of ecological intensification in contrasting farming systems6.5.2 Ecological intensification in animal husbandry6.5.3 Ecological intensification of human diet6.6 Ecological intensification in theology of creation and food ethics<br>7.Conclusions<br><i>References </i><i>Index</i>
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 |
