The spirit of the soil

Agriculture and environmental ethics

Bibliographic Data

ID20031991
AuthorsPaul B Thompson, Paul Β Thompson (0000-0003-0555-9914, corresponding author)
Year1994
Pages196
Publication date1994-11-26
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byThe spirit of the soil: Agriculture and environmental ethics, Michael Watts, 1995
VenueThe spirit of the soil (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
OpenAlexW1485517486
Open LibraryOL1083526M
ISBN9780415086233
LanguageEN
Citations received42

In this second edition of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, Paul B. Thompson reviews four worldviews that shape competing visions for agriculture. Productionists have sought increasing yields—to make two seeds grow where only one grew before—while traditional visions of good farming have stressed stewardship. These traditional visions have been challenged by two more worldviews: a call for a total cost accounting for farming and an advocacy for a holistic perspective. Thompson argues that an environmentally defensible systems approach must draw upon all four worldviews, recognizing their flaws and synthesizing their strengths in a new vision of sustainable agriculture. This classic 1995 study has been thoroughly revised and significantly expanded in its second edition with up-to-date examples of agriculture’s impact on the environment. These include extensive discussions of new pesticides and the effects of animal agriculture on climate and other areas of the environment. In addition, a new final chapter discusses sustainability, which has become a dominant idea within environmental studies and agrarian political philosophy

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Environmental stewardship · Geography · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable agriculture · Vision · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Environmental aspects · Environmental aspects of Agriculture · Moral and ethical aspects · Moral and ethical aspects of Agriculture · Ecology

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