Climate change and sustainable development: Ethical perspectives on land use and food production

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Domains of climate ethics: an overview....Pages 23-28
The global governance of climate change, forests, water, and food: normative challenges....Pages 29-34
The willed blindness of humans: animal welfare and beyond....Pages 35-40
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Which sustainability suits you?....Pages 43-48
The value(s) of sustainability within a pragmatically justified theory of values: considerations in the context of climate change....Pages 49-54
Towards an ecological space paradigm: fair and sustainable distribution of environmental resources....Pages 55-60
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Addressing the commons: normative approaches to common pool resources....Pages 63-68
A global solution to land grabbing? An institutional cosmopolitan approach....Pages 69-74
Climate change, intellectual property rights and global justice....Pages 75-79
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Global warming, ethics, and cultural criticism....Pages 83-89
The ethics of climate change denial....Pages 90-94
World wide views on global warming: evaluation of a public debate....Pages 95-99
The truth is that we have an inconvenient nature....Pages 100-105
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A climate tax on meat?....Pages 109-114
Acting now or later? Determining an adequate decision strategy for mitigation measures addressing methane emissions from ruminants....Pages 115-120
Equal per capita entitlements to greenhouse gas emissions: a justice based-critique....Pages 121-127
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Managing nature parks as an ethical challenge: a proposal for a practical tool to identify fundamental questions....Pages 131-136
The citizens forest model: climate change, preservation of natural resources and forest ethics....Pages 137-141
‘Good change’ in the woods: conceptual and ethical perspectives on integrating sustainable land-use and biodiversity protection....Pages 142-147
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A collective virtue approach to agricultural ethics....Pages 151-153
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Providing grounds for agricultural ethics: the wider philosophical significance of plant life integrity....Pages 154-159
Do algae have moral standing? On exploitation, ethical extension and climate change mitigation....Pages 160-165
Animistic pragmatism and native ways of knowing: adaptive strategies for responding to environmental change and overcoming the struggle for food in the Arctic....Pages 166-171
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Sustainability, animal welfare and ethical food policy: a comparative analysis of sustainable intensification and holistic integrative naturalism....Pages 175-180
‘All that is solid melts into air’: the Dutch debate about factory farming....Pages 181-186
Adaptive capacities from an animal welfare perspective....Pages 187-191
Agriculture’s 6 Fs and the need for more intensive agriculture....Pages 192-195
Feed efficiencies in animal production: a non-numerical analysis....Pages 196-201
For the benefit of the land? Ethical aspects of the impact of meat production on nature, the environment and the countryside....Pages 202-206
Fewer burps in your burgers or more birds in the bush?....Pages 207-212
Inconvenient truths and agricultural emissions....Pages 213-218
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The ethics of using agricultural land to produce biomass: using energy like it grows on trees....Pages 221-226
Setting the rules of the game: ethical and legal issues raised by bioenergy governance methods....Pages 227-232
India’s agrofuel policies from a feminist-environmentalist perspective....Pages 233-238
Grafting our biobased economies on African roots?....Pages 239-244
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Transformation of food governance models: perspectives arisen from a food citizenship....Pages 247-252
Food policy and climate change: uncovering the missing links....Pages 253-258
Sustainable food policies for the EU27: results from the EUPOPP project....Pages 259-266
An ethical argument for vigilant prevention....Pages 267-270
Liability versus responsibility: the food industry case....Pages 271-274
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Integrated assessments of emerging food technologies – some options and challenges....Pages 275-279
Addressing farmers or traders: socio-ethical issues in developing a national action plan for sustainable crop protection....Pages 280-286
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This is or is not food: framing malnutrition, obesity and healthy eating....Pages 289-294
Food as art: poiēsis and the importance of soft impacts....Pages 295-300
Conflicting food production values: global free market or local production?....Pages 301-306
Toward sustainable agriculture and food production: an ethically sound vision for the future....Pages 307-312
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Changing an iconic species by biotechnology: the case of Norwegian salmon....Pages 315-320
Why German consumers need to reconsider their preferences: the ethical argument for aquaculture....Pages 321-325
Fish for food in a challenged climate: ethical reflections....Pages 326-331
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A theoretical framework to analyse sustainability relevant food choices from a cultural perspective: caring for food and sustainability in a pluralistic society....Pages 335-341
Food, sustainability and ecological responsibility: hunger as the negation of human rights....Pages 342-347
Cultured meat: will it separate us from nature?....Pages 348-351
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Gender differences in pro-social behaviour: the case of Fair Trade food consumers....Pages 355-360
Employing a normative conception of sustainability to reason and specify green consumerism....Pages 361-366
Are we morally obliged to become vegans?....Pages 367-372
Food ethics: new religion or common sense?....Pages 373-378
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Climate change and biodiversity: a need for ‘reflexive interdisciplinary’....Pages 381-386
Changing societies: ethical questions raised by ANR-funded research programs and projects related to climate and environmental change....Pages 387-393
Examining the inclusion of ethics and social issues in bioscience research: concepts of ‘reflection’ in science....Pages 394-399
Biochar for smallholder farmers in East Africa: arguing for transdisciplinary research....Pages 400-404
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Biotechnology and a new approach to a theory of values....Pages 407-412
Towards a value-reflexive governance of water....Pages 413-418
Mapping core values and ethical principles for livelihoods in Asia....Pages 419-424
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 Conflict cloud green genetic engineering: structuring and visualizing the controversy over biotechnology in agriculture....Pages 427-430
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....Pages 431-435
Implementation of ethical standards in a cattle improvement company....Pages 436-438
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Leaving the ivory tower or back into theory? Learning from paradigm cases in animal ethics....Pages 441-446
From just using animals to a justification of animal use: the intrinsic value of animals as a confusing start....Pages 447-449
Daniel Haybron’s theory of welfare and its implications for animal welfare assessment....Pages 450-454
Cognitive relatives yet moral strangers? Killing great apes and dolphins for food....Pages 455-461
Assessing the animal ethics review process....Pages 462-467
Investigating the existence of an ‘Animal Kuznets curve’ in the EU-15 countries....Pages 468-474
The Chinese animal: from food to pet....Pages 475-480
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Bringing animal ethics teaching into the public domain: the Animalogos experience....Pages 483-488
Teaching sustainability and ethics....Pages 489-495
Teaching sustainable development and environmental ethics: the IBMB-concept of bringing theory and practical cases together....Pages 496-501
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The Mepham Matrix and the importance of institutions in food and agricultural ethics....Pages 505-510
The ethical matrix as an instrument for teaching and evaluation....Pages 511-516
Food ethics for an active citizenry: AgroFood Democracy – an active learning tool....Pages 517-519
Back Matter....Pages 521-526