Lecture VideoClass Research Resources and Assignments
Week 12
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Lecture Video
Principles of Ecosystem Management and Global Sustainability
| December 3, 2002 | Numerous international efforts have been launched to articulate and codify ethical principles of sustainability. These include principles adopted at the first global environmental summit known as the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janiero in 1992. In addition, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) has drawn up a list of ten principles, and the international Earth Charter movement has developed others that it will seek to place before the United Nations in 2002.
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Supplemental Bibliography:
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| * 1992 | Chapter V - Time's Arrow and the Human Prospect, in Environmental Decline and Public Policy: Pattern, Trend and Prospect, with Richard Grey, (Ann Arbor, MI, Pierian Press, 1992). |
| * 1997 | "Selling Pigeons in the Temple: The Danger of Market Metaphors in an Ecosystem" (1997). |
| * 1997 | "Some Notes from Belshaz'zar's Feast," in The Greening of Faith: God, the Environment, and the Good Life Edited by John E. Carroll, Paul Brockelman and Mary Westfall (Hanover, London, University Press of New England, 1997), pp. 11-29. or http://ecoethics.net/papers/Belshazar-front.htm |
| 1998 | "Bad Samaritans on a Small Planet: Rethinking 'Neighbor' in an Ecosystem." (1998) |
| * 2000 | "Denying the Evidence: Science and the Human Prospect," in Earth at Risk: An Environmental Dialogue between Religion and Science, Donald B. Conroy and Rodney L. Petersen, (eds.), (Amherst, New York, Humanity Books, 2000), pp. 107-130. |
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The "Newspeak" of "Sustainable Development" UNCED - RIO DECLARATION
ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT |
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| The Promise of Food Production Technology and Biotechnology
 HRH Prince Charles -
Prince of Wales on Biotechnology.
Text of Price Charles Reith Lecture).What are the moral theories imbedded in each of the perspectives in this global debate? What are the operative theories of community, system, authority, change, agency, and time in each party's perspective?)
In recent months, some scientists have questioned the safety and reliability of genetically modified plants. These questions have been picked up and amplified by the general news media, leading in some cases to local bans on foods from such crops. Now seven academies of science from around the world, including five from developing nations, issued a white paper Tuesday spelling out the promise of agricultural biotechnology to alleviate hunger and poverty in the Third World. The paper urges governments to base their decisions regarding biotechnology on sound science, and strongly encourages private corporations and research institutions to share their technology with scientists and farmers in developing countries who desperately need it. "Elimination of Global Hunger"USDA Millennium Lecture, Dr. Gordon Conway, Rockefeller Foundation President (intro by Dan Glickman)-RealAudio only 25 Sep 2000. |
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Third
World Protests against the Non-Progress and Doublespeak of the International
Community
Examine particularly the resources available through the:
Vandana Shiva is a physicist and philosopher of science. She is also an indefatigable activist, having played a key role in the famous Chipko movement in the Himalayas. Prior to 1982 she was scientific researcher at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.  She left the Institute
to set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural
Resource Policy in New Delhi, India, where she is Director. She is also
the Science and Environment Adviser of the Third World Network and the
Asia Pacific People's Network (APPEN), Associate Editor of The Ecologist,
and a Board Member of a number of other national and international bodies.
Her books include Monoculture of the Mind, Biotechnology and the Environment,
and Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. In 1993, she was awarded
the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the alternative Nobel Prize.
(View the entire Year 2000 Reith Lecture Series - "Respect for the Earth" including: |
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| Emerging Voices of North-South Solidarity on Biotechnology, Globalization and Environment: BBC - 3 Part Report
in the "Global Business" Series A
statement by Jose Bove, French farmer and unionist, to a French court
during a trial on charges of destroying genetically modified maize. Bove
is best known for actions against the McDonaldization of food. Agreement reached on protecting
plant genetic resources
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Discussion of Biotechnology
Issues on "Uncommon Knowledge."
Part I 