TY  - GEN
N2  - "Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the South in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment and the position of women in society coincide. In this new volume, she brings together her thinking on the protection of biodiversity, the implications of biotechnology, and the consequences for agriculture of the global pre-eminence of Western-style scientific knowledge." "In lucid and accessible fashion, she examines the current threats to the planet's biodiversity and the environmental and human consequences of its erosion and replacement by monocultural production. She shows how the new Biodiversity Convention has been gravely undermined by a mixture of diplomatic dilution during the process of negotiation and Northern hi-tech interests making money out of the new biotechnologies. She explains what these technologies involves and gives examples of their impact in practice. She questions their claims to improving natural species for the good of all and highlights the ethical and environmental problems psoed."
AB  - "Vandana Shiva has established herself as a leading independent thinker and voice for the South in that critically important nexus where questions of development strategy, the environment and the position of women in society coincide. In this new volume, she brings together her thinking on the protection of biodiversity, the implications of biotechnology, and the consequences for agriculture of the global pre-eminence of Western-style scientific knowledge." "In lucid and accessible fashion, she examines the current threats to the planet's biodiversity and the environmental and human consequences of its erosion and replacement by monocultural production. She shows how the new Biodiversity Convention has been gravely undermined by a mixture of diplomatic dilution during the process of negotiation and Northern hi-tech interests making money out of the new biotechnologies. She explains what these technologies involves and gives examples of their impact in practice. She questions their claims to improving natural species for the good of all and highlights the ethical and environmental problems psoed."
T1  - Monocultures of the mind :perspectives on biodiversity and biotechnology /
AU  - Shiva, Vandana,
ET  - 2000 (4th printing).
CN  - QH75
N1  - Ordered from the publisher, Third World Network, November 2004; 12 usd.
ID  - 13613
KW  - Biodiversity conservation
KW  - Biodiversity conservation.
KW  - Biotechnology
KW  - Geography.
KW  - Ecology.
KW  - Patents
KW  - BIOTECHNOLOGY
KW  - BIODIVERSITY
KW  - DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
KW  - GENETIC RESOURCES
KW  - INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
SN  - 1856492184
TI  - Monocultures of the mind :perspectives on biodiversity and biotechnology /
ER  -