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PublisherSpringer Netherlands

ISBN-109400709285

ISBN-139789400709287

eBay Product ID (ePID)123583558

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXxxvii, 1860 Pages

Publication NameEncyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEnvironmental, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Agriculture / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Fisheries & Aquaculture

Publication Year2014

TypeTextbook

AuthorDavid M. Kaplan

Subject AreaNature, Law, Philosophy, Technology & Engineering, Social Science

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight150.4 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2014-950635

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes3 vols.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal178

SynopsisThis Encyclopedia offers a definitive source on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in the important new area of food and agricultural ethics. It includes summaries of historical approaches, current scholarship, social movements, and new trends from the standpoint of the ethical notions that have shaped them. It combines detailed analyses of specific topics such as the role of antibiotics in animal production, the Green Revolution, and alternative methods of organic farming, with longer entries that summarize general areas of scholarship and explore ways that they are related. Renewed debate, discussion and inquiry into food and agricultural topics have become a hallmark of the turn toward more sustainable policies and lifestyles in the 21st century. Attention has turned to the goals and ethical rationale behind production, distribution and consumption of food, as well as to non-food uses of cultivated biomass and the products of animal husbandry. These wide-ranging debates encompass questions in human nutrition, animal rights and the environmental impacts of aquaculture and agricultural production. Each of these and related topics is both technically complex and involves an - often implicit - ethical dimension. Other topics include methods for integrating ethics into scientific and technical research programs or development projects, the role of intensive agriculture and biotechnology in addressing persistent world hunger and the role of crops, forests and engineered organisms in making a transition to renewable, carbon-neutral sources of energy. The Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics proves an indispensible reference point for future research and writing on topics in agriculture and food ethics for decades to come., The field of agricultural and food ethics emerged in the 1980's as scholars began to recognize the need for explicitly normative scholarship on problems and issues associated with the food system. After 25 years of growth, agricultural and food ethics have blossomed in the wake of food safety scandals and renewed interest in alternative ways to organize the agrifood system. There has been a rapid growth in courses taught and in the entry of new researchers into the topics of agricultural and food ethics over the last five years. Scholarship has now reached a point where there is a need for a cross-cutting reference volume that will enable newcomers to the field to gain orientation to the array of topics and problems, existing scholarship on these topics and problems, and key concepts that have been established in agricultural and food ethics. Active scholars in the field would also benefit from literature reviews and survey articles that facilitate a more cumulative trend in research efforts., The accumulation of scholarship in this field since its emergence in the 1980s has necessitated this comprehensive reference, which offers newcomers an in-depth orientation to existing literature while providing existing scholars with a valuable resource.

LC Classification NumberBJ1-1725