Ethics and sustainable agriculture : bridging the ecological gaps / Fabio Caporali.
Caporali, Fabio.
2021
S494.5.S86
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Title Ethics and sustainable agriculture : bridging the ecological gaps / Fabio Caporali.
Author Caporali, Fabio.
ISBN 9783030766832 (electronic bk.)
3030766837 (electronic bk.)
3030766829
9783030766825
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76683-2
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-76683-2 doi
Call Number S494.5.S86
Dewey Decimal Classification 630.2/086
Summary 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.
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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.

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