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Climate Change and Sustainable Development : Ethical Perspectives on Land Use and Food Production.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (528 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789086867530
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.73874
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Contents:
Climate change and sustainable development: Ethical perspectives on land use and food production -- Climate change andsustainable development: Ethical perspectives on land use and food production -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Keynote contributions -- Domains of climate ethics: an overview -- Abstract -- Introduction: the ethical profile of climate change -- Ethical suppositions in climate economics -- Stabilization level of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration -- Distribution schemes for remaining emission entitlements -- Responsibility for historical emissions? -- Adaptation opportunities -- Climate engineering -- Contraction and convergence versus greenhuse development rights -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The global governance of climate change, forests, water, and food: normative challenges -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Climate Change -- Climate change and food -- Climate change ethical challenges -- Current state of climate governance -- Inferences -- Water -- Water and food -- Water ethical challenges -- Current state of water governance -- Inferences -- Forests -- Forests and food -- Forest ethical challenges -- Inferences -- Implications for food -- Implications of the above for food -- Food ethical challenges -- Inferences -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The willed blindness of humans: animal welfare and beyond -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Animal welfare -- Meat and nature -- A new moral vision? -- References -- Section 1. Sustainability: general issues -- Which sustainability suits you? -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Sustainability and the triple-P-concept -- Different worldviews -- Worldviews and sustainability -- Triple-P and principles of sustainability -- Conclusion -- References.
The value(s) of sustainability within a pragmatically justified theory of values: considerations in the context of climate change -- Abstract -- Climate change and sustainability -- Sustainability as a moral value (set) -- Value conflicts within a pragmatically justified theory of values -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Towards an ecological space paradigm: fair and sustainable distribution of environmental resources -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Currency -- Scope -- Pattern -- Conclusion -- References -- Section 2. Property rights and commons -- Addressing the commons: normative approaches to common pool resources -- Abstract -- Common pool resources -- A normative approach to the commons -- Environmental rights and the concept of group rights -- Summary -- References -- A global solution to land grabbing? An institutional cosmopolitan approach -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Food vs. Fuel-Land-Grabbing (FFLG) case -- Human rights relevant to the case of land grabbing and biofuels -- A critique of human rights and a global code of conduct -- An institutional cosmopolitan view of the FFLG case -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Climate change, intellectual property rights and global justice -- Abstract -- Introduction: from medicines to climate change -- The health impact fund idea -- Is this idea suitable for climate friendly technologies? -- Difficulty 1: Mitigation and/or adaptation -- Difficulty 2: fair shares or impact maximization? -- Difficult 3: Low-tech or high-tech solutions? -- Difficulty 4: Self-consuming improvements? -- Difficulty 5: Use and ownership of technologies -- A global justice conception -- References -- Section 3. Global warming and climate change -- Global warming, ethics, and cultural criticism -- Abstract -- Introduction -- What is culture? -- Three approaches in environmental policy.
Cultural criticism -- Cultural criticism in practice -- Concluding remarks -- References -- The ethics of climate change denial -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Two debates on climate change -- From scientific mistakes to morally reprehensible behavior -- An ethical critique of the climate change disinformation campaign -- Harming by denying? -- Conclusion -- References -- World wide views on global warming: evaluation of a public debate -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Disagreement about climate change as an unstructured policy problem -- Evaluation criteria -- World wide views -- Conclusion -- References -- The truth is that we have an inconvenient nature -- Abstract -- Introduction -- An inconvenient truth -- Wilderness and nature, technology and culture -- Away from dualism -- Reference List: -- Section 4. Ethics, adaptation &amp -- mitigation -- A climate tax on meat? -- Abstract -- Livestock production contributes to climate change -- Mitigation measures -- Pros and cons of a meat tax within the EU -- Pros -- Cons -- Responses to the con arguments -- A differentiated or a non-differentiated meat tax within the EU? -- Pro a GHG weighted meat tax -- Con a GHG weighted meat tax -- Responses to the con arguments -- Conclusion -- References -- Acting now or later? Determining an adequate decision strategy for mitigation measures addressing methane emissions from ruminan -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Types of uncertainty -- Uncertainties of policy decision problems -- Sources of uncertainties related to information about options -- Sources of uncertainties related to information about outcomes -- Sources of uncertainties related to information about values -- Decision strategies -- Conclusion -- References -- Equal per capita entitlements to greenhouse gas emissions: a justice based-critique -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Allocation of entitlements: EPC.
Introduction -- Negative allocations -- Benchmark -- Ignoring heterogeneity: luxury and subsistence -- A fair package of goods: isolating carbon -- A fair package of goods: isolating food -- Participatory justice -- Conclusion -- References -- Section 5. Ethics of non-agricultural landmanagement -- Managing nature parks as an ethical challenge: a proposal for a practical tool to identify fundamental questions -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The flip side of success: from animals in nature to animals in the public debate -- A framework to analyse ethical problems in a policy context -- The application of the framework for the moral questions raised in the management of the OVP -- Conclusion -- References -- The citizens forest model: climate change, preservation of natural resources and forest ethics -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The superiority of continuous mixed forestry -- Establishment of a central private natural heritage foundation -- Conclusion -- References -- 'Good change' in the woods: conceptual and ethical perspectives on integrating sustainable land-use and biodiversity protection -- Abstract -- Sustainable development, change and climate change -- 'Good change' and forestry -- Non-indigenous tree species as a means of precaution to climate change -- Contrasting or combining wild woods, extensive forestry and intensive short rotation -- A hierarchy of goals for using forest products? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Section 6. Environmental &amp -- agricultural ethics -- A collective virtue approach to agricultural ethics -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Agrarianism -- Collective virtues of agriculture -- References -- Providing grounds for agricultural ethics: the wider philosophical significance of plant life integrity -- Abstract -- Introduction -- A strange evidence: a plant is not an animal.
On what it means to be a plant: a 'plastician' approach -- Describing plant life integrity: a 'realist' assessment -- Respecting plant life integrity: an agricultural issue? -- On the virtue of crisis: the emergence of agricultural philosophy and ethics -- References -- Do algae have moral standing? On exploitation, ethical extension and climate change mitigation -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Exploitation of the nature-worker -- Ethical extension -- Unburdening the climate - postponing the crisis? -- References -- Animistic pragmatism and native ways of knowing: adaptive strategies for responding to environmental change and overcoming the struggle for food in the Arctic -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Animal agency and the Inupiat - a window into Alaska native ecosophy -- Narrative as moral testimony -- Moral testimony and expertise: the elder as historical epistemologists and moral philosopher -- In what ways exactly can Inupiat knowledge help us understand humananimal relationships better? -- On narrative and animal ethics -- Conclusion -- References -- Section 7. Intensive vs. extensive production: animal welfare, efficiency and environmental implications -- Sustainability, animal welfare and ethical food policy: a comparative analysis of sustainable intensification and holistic integrative naturalism -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The link between agriculture and climate change -- Sustainable intensification in the Foresight report -- Livestock intensification and animal welfare problems -- The ethics of genetic modification -- Holistic integrative naturalism: an alternative to sustainable intensification -- Discussion -- Conceptions of human nature -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 'All that is solid melts into air': the Dutch debate about factory farming -- Abstract.
Livestock industry in the Netherlands - the development of large scale stables.
Summary: Climate change is a major framing condition for sustainable development of agriculture and food. Global food production is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time it is among the sectors worst affected by climate change. This book brings together a multidisciplinary group of authors exploring the ethical dimensions of climate change and food. Conceptual clarifications provide a necessary basis for putting sustainable development into practice. Adaptation and mitigation demand altering both agricultural and consumption practices. Intensive vs. extensive production is reassessed with regard to animal welfare, efficiency and environmental implications. Property rights play an ever-increasing role, as do shifting land-use practices, agro-energy, biotechnology, food policy to green consumerism. And, last but not least, tools are suggested for teaching agricultural and food ethics. Notwithstanding the plurality of ethical analyses and their outcome, it becomes apparent that governance of agri-food is faced by new needs and new approaches of bringing in the value dimension much more explicitly. This book is intended to serve as a stimulating collection that will contribute to the debate and reflection on the sustainable future of agriculture and food production in the face of global change.
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Climate change and sustainable development: Ethical perspectives on land use and food production -- Climate change andsustainable development: Ethical perspectives on land use and food production -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Keynote contributions -- Domains of climate ethics: an overview -- Abstract -- Introduction: the ethical profile of climate change -- Ethical suppositions in climate economics -- Stabilization level of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration -- Distribution schemes for remaining emission entitlements -- Responsibility for historical emissions? -- Adaptation opportunities -- Climate engineering -- Contraction and convergence versus greenhuse development rights -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The global governance of climate change, forests, water, and food: normative challenges -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Climate Change -- Climate change and food -- Climate change ethical challenges -- Current state of climate governance -- Inferences -- Water -- Water and food -- Water ethical challenges -- Current state of water governance -- Inferences -- Forests -- Forests and food -- Forest ethical challenges -- Inferences -- Implications for food -- Implications of the above for food -- Food ethical challenges -- Inferences -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The willed blindness of humans: animal welfare and beyond -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Animal welfare -- Meat and nature -- A new moral vision? -- References -- Section 1. Sustainability: general issues -- Which sustainability suits you? -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Sustainability and the triple-P-concept -- Different worldviews -- Worldviews and sustainability -- Triple-P and principles of sustainability -- Conclusion -- References.

The value(s) of sustainability within a pragmatically justified theory of values: considerations in the context of climate change -- Abstract -- Climate change and sustainability -- Sustainability as a moral value (set) -- Value conflicts within a pragmatically justified theory of values -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Towards an ecological space paradigm: fair and sustainable distribution of environmental resources -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Currency -- Scope -- Pattern -- Conclusion -- References -- Section 2. Property rights and commons -- Addressing the commons: normative approaches to common pool resources -- Abstract -- Common pool resources -- A normative approach to the commons -- Environmental rights and the concept of group rights -- Summary -- References -- A global solution to land grabbing? An institutional cosmopolitan approach -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Food vs. Fuel-Land-Grabbing (FFLG) case -- Human rights relevant to the case of land grabbing and biofuels -- A critique of human rights and a global code of conduct -- An institutional cosmopolitan view of the FFLG case -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Climate change, intellectual property rights and global justice -- Abstract -- Introduction: from medicines to climate change -- The health impact fund idea -- Is this idea suitable for climate friendly technologies? -- Difficulty 1: Mitigation and/or adaptation -- Difficulty 2: fair shares or impact maximization? -- Difficult 3: Low-tech or high-tech solutions? -- Difficulty 4: Self-consuming improvements? -- Difficulty 5: Use and ownership of technologies -- A global justice conception -- References -- Section 3. Global warming and climate change -- Global warming, ethics, and cultural criticism -- Abstract -- Introduction -- What is culture? -- Three approaches in environmental policy.

Cultural criticism -- Cultural criticism in practice -- Concluding remarks -- References -- The ethics of climate change denial -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Two debates on climate change -- From scientific mistakes to morally reprehensible behavior -- An ethical critique of the climate change disinformation campaign -- Harming by denying? -- Conclusion -- References -- World wide views on global warming: evaluation of a public debate -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Disagreement about climate change as an unstructured policy problem -- Evaluation criteria -- World wide views -- Conclusion -- References -- The truth is that we have an inconvenient nature -- Abstract -- Introduction -- An inconvenient truth -- Wilderness and nature, technology and culture -- Away from dualism -- Reference List: -- Section 4. Ethics, adaptation &amp -- mitigation -- A climate tax on meat? -- Abstract -- Livestock production contributes to climate change -- Mitigation measures -- Pros and cons of a meat tax within the EU -- Pros -- Cons -- Responses to the con arguments -- A differentiated or a non-differentiated meat tax within the EU? -- Pro a GHG weighted meat tax -- Con a GHG weighted meat tax -- Responses to the con arguments -- Conclusion -- References -- Acting now or later? Determining an adequate decision strategy for mitigation measures addressing methane emissions from ruminan -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Types of uncertainty -- Uncertainties of policy decision problems -- Sources of uncertainties related to information about options -- Sources of uncertainties related to information about outcomes -- Sources of uncertainties related to information about values -- Decision strategies -- Conclusion -- References -- Equal per capita entitlements to greenhouse gas emissions: a justice based-critique -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Allocation of entitlements: EPC.

Introduction -- Negative allocations -- Benchmark -- Ignoring heterogeneity: luxury and subsistence -- A fair package of goods: isolating carbon -- A fair package of goods: isolating food -- Participatory justice -- Conclusion -- References -- Section 5. Ethics of non-agricultural landmanagement -- Managing nature parks as an ethical challenge: a proposal for a practical tool to identify fundamental questions -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The flip side of success: from animals in nature to animals in the public debate -- A framework to analyse ethical problems in a policy context -- The application of the framework for the moral questions raised in the management of the OVP -- Conclusion -- References -- The citizens forest model: climate change, preservation of natural resources and forest ethics -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The superiority of continuous mixed forestry -- Establishment of a central private natural heritage foundation -- Conclusion -- References -- 'Good change' in the woods: conceptual and ethical perspectives on integrating sustainable land-use and biodiversity protection -- Abstract -- Sustainable development, change and climate change -- 'Good change' and forestry -- Non-indigenous tree species as a means of precaution to climate change -- Contrasting or combining wild woods, extensive forestry and intensive short rotation -- A hierarchy of goals for using forest products? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Section 6. Environmental &amp -- agricultural ethics -- A collective virtue approach to agricultural ethics -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Agrarianism -- Collective virtues of agriculture -- References -- Providing grounds for agricultural ethics: the wider philosophical significance of plant life integrity -- Abstract -- Introduction -- A strange evidence: a plant is not an animal.

On what it means to be a plant: a 'plastician' approach -- Describing plant life integrity: a 'realist' assessment -- Respecting plant life integrity: an agricultural issue? -- On the virtue of crisis: the emergence of agricultural philosophy and ethics -- References -- Do algae have moral standing? On exploitation, ethical extension and climate change mitigation -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Exploitation of the nature-worker -- Ethical extension -- Unburdening the climate - postponing the crisis? -- References -- Animistic pragmatism and native ways of knowing: adaptive strategies for responding to environmental change and overcoming the struggle for food in the Arctic -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Animal agency and the Inupiat - a window into Alaska native ecosophy -- Narrative as moral testimony -- Moral testimony and expertise: the elder as historical epistemologists and moral philosopher -- In what ways exactly can Inupiat knowledge help us understand humananimal relationships better? -- On narrative and animal ethics -- Conclusion -- References -- Section 7. Intensive vs. extensive production: animal welfare, efficiency and environmental implications -- Sustainability, animal welfare and ethical food policy: a comparative analysis of sustainable intensification and holistic integrative naturalism -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The link between agriculture and climate change -- Sustainable intensification in the Foresight report -- Livestock intensification and animal welfare problems -- The ethics of genetic modification -- Holistic integrative naturalism: an alternative to sustainable intensification -- Discussion -- Conceptions of human nature -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 'All that is solid melts into air': the Dutch debate about factory farming -- Abstract.

Livestock industry in the Netherlands - the development of large scale stables.

Climate change is a major framing condition for sustainable development of agriculture and food. Global food production is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time it is among the sectors worst affected by climate change. This book brings together a multidisciplinary group of authors exploring the ethical dimensions of climate change and food. Conceptual clarifications provide a necessary basis for putting sustainable development into practice. Adaptation and mitigation demand altering both agricultural and consumption practices. Intensive vs. extensive production is reassessed with regard to animal welfare, efficiency and environmental implications. Property rights play an ever-increasing role, as do shifting land-use practices, agro-energy, biotechnology, food policy to green consumerism. And, last but not least, tools are suggested for teaching agricultural and food ethics. Notwithstanding the plurality of ethical analyses and their outcome, it becomes apparent that governance of agri-food is faced by new needs and new approaches of bringing in the value dimension much more explicitly. This book is intended to serve as a stimulating collection that will contribute to the debate and reflection on the sustainable future of agriculture and food production in the face of global change.

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