Climate change and sustainable development : Ethical perspectives on land use and food production / / edited by Thomas Potthast, Simon Meisch.

• Author: European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics. Congress
• HerausgeberIn: Potthast, Thomas.; Meisch, Simon.
• Place / Publishing House: Wageningen : : Wageningen Academic Publishers :, Imprint: Wageningen Academic Publishers,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed. 2012.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (528 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 multidisciplina...

Table of Contents

• EurSafe 2012 Committees
• Preface
• Keynote contributions Domains of climate ethics: an overview
• The global governance of climate change, forests, water, and food: normative challenges
• The willed blindness of humans: animal welfare and beyond
• Section 1. Sustainability: general issues
• Which sustainability suits you?
• The value(s) of sustainability within a pragmatically justified theory of values: considerations in the context of climate change
• Towards an ecological space paradigm: fair and sustainable distribution of environmental resources
• Section 2. Property rights and commons
• Addressing the commons: normative approaches to common pool resources
• A global solution to land grabbing? An institutional cosmopolitan approach
• Climate change, intellectual property rights and global justice
• Section 3. Global warming and climate change
• Global warming, ethics, and cultural criticism
• The ethics of climate change denial
• World wide views on global warming: evaluation of a public debate
• The truth is that we have an inconvenient nature
• Section 4. Ethics, adaptation & mitigation
• A climate tax on meat?
• Acting now or later? Determining an adequate decision strategy for mitigation measures addressing methane emissions from ruminants
• Equal per capita entitlements to greenhouse gas emissions: a justice based-critique
• Section 5. Ethics of non-agricultural land-management
• Managing nature parks as an ethical challenge: a proposal for a practical tool to identify fundamental questions
• The citizens forest model: climate change, preservation of natural resources and forest ethics
• ‘Good change’ in the woods: conceptual and ethical perspectives on integrating sustainable land-use and biodiversity protection
• Section 6. Environmental & agricultural ethics
• A collective virtue approach to agricultural ethics
• Providing grounds for agricultural ethics: the wider philosophical significance of plant life integrity
• Do algae have moral standing? On exploitation, ethical extension and climate change mitigation
• Animistic pragmatism and native ways of knowing: adaptive strategies for responding to environmental change and overcoming the struggle for food in the Arctic
• 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
• ‘All that is solid melts into air’: the Dutch debate about factory farming
• Adaptive capacities from an animal welfare perspective
• Agriculture’s 6 Fs and the need for more intensive agriculture
• Feed efficiencies in animal production: a non-numerical analysis
• For the benefit of the land? Ethical aspects of the impact of meat production on nature, the environment and the countryside
• Fewer burps in your burgers or more birds in the bush?
• Inconvenient truths and agricultural emissions
• Section 8. Agro-energy
• The ethics of using agricultural land to produce biomass: using energy like it grows on trees
• Setting the rules of the game: ethical and legal issues raised by bioenergy governance methods
• India’s agrofuel policies from a feminist-environmentalist perspective
• Grafting our biobased economies on African roots?
• Section 9. Food policy
• Transformation of food governance models: perspectives arisen from a food citizenship
• Food policy and climate change: uncovering the missing links
• Sustainable food policies for the EU27: results from the EUPOPP project
• An ethical argument for vigilant prevention
• Liability versus responsibility: the food industry case
• Integrated assessments of emerging food technologies – some options and challenges
• Addressing farmers or traders: socio-ethical issues in developing a national action plan for sustainable crop protection
• Section 10. Food in context
• This is or is not food: framing malnutrition, obesity and healthy eating
• Food as art: poiēsis and the importance of soft impacts
• Conflicting food production values: global free market or local production?
• Toward sustainable agriculture and food production: an ethically sound vision for the future
• Section 11. Fish for food
• Changing an iconic species by biotechnology: the case of Norwegian salmon
• Why German consumers need to reconsider their preferences: the ethical argument for aquaculture
• Fish for food in a challenged climate: ethical reflections
• Section 12. Food and sustainability
• A theoretical framework to analyse sustainability relevant food choices from a cultural perspective: caring for food and sustainability in a pluralistic society
• Food, sustainability and ecological responsibility: hunger as the negation of human rights
• Cultured meat: will it separate us from nature?
• Section 13. Consumers and consuming
• Gender differences in pro-social behaviour: the case of Fair Trade food consumers
• Employing a normative conception of sustainability to reason and specify green consumerism
• Are we morally obliged to become vegans?
• Food ethics: new religion or common sense?
• Section 14. Science and governance
• Climate change and biodiversity: a need for ‘reflexive interdisciplinarity’
• Changing societies: ethical questions raised by ANR-funded research programs and projects related to climate and environmental change
• Examining the inclusion of ethics and social issues in bioscience research: concepts of ‘reflection’ in science
• Biochar for smallholder farmers in East Africa: arguing for transdisciplinary research
• Section 15. Values for governance
• Biotechnology and a new approach to a theory of values
• Towards a value-reflexive governance of water
• Mapping core values and ethical principles for livelihoods in Asia
• Section 16. Biotechnology in context
• Conflict cloud green genetic engineering: structuring and visualizing the controversy over biotechnology in agriculture
• Maize as a cultural element of identity and as a biological being: narratives of Mexican children on the transgenic maize debate and the importance of knowing the context
• Implementation of ethical standards in a cattle improvement company
• Section 17. Animal ethics
• Leaving the ivory tower or back into theory? Learning from paradigm cases in animal ethics
• From just using animals to a justification of animal use: the intrinsic value of animals as a confusing start
• Daniel Haybron’s theory of welfare and its implications for animal welfare assessment
• Cognitive relatives yet moral strangers? Killing great apes and dolphins for food
• Assessing the animal ethics review process
• Investigating the existence of an ‘Animal Kuznets curve’ in the EU-15 countries
• The Chinese animal: from food to pet
• Section 18. Ethics teaching
• Bringing animal ethics teaching into the public domain: the Animalogos experience
• Teaching sustainability and ethics
• Teaching sustainable development and environmental ethics: the IBMB-concept of bringing theory and practical cases together
• Section 19. Ethical matrix and learning instruments
• The Mepham Matrix and the importance of institutions in food and agricultural ethics
• The ethical matrix as an instrument for teaching and evaluation
• Food ethics for an active citizenry: AgroFood Democracy – an active learning tool
• Author index
• Keyword index.