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  • - Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
    by Vandana Shiva
    £8.99

    Award-winning activist and bestselling author Vandana Shiva exposes the unaccountable actions of the ultra-rich and takes her place at the forefront of the fightback.

  • - Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth
    by Vandana Shiva
    £11.49

    Authored by world renowned activist and environmental leader Vandana Shiva, Reclaiming the Commons presents the history of the struggle to defend biodiversity and traditional practices against corporate biopiracy and details efforts to realize legal rights for Mother Earth and achieve the vision of the universal commons and Earth as Family.

  • - Women, Ecology, and Development
    by Vandana Shiva
    £13.49

    Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injustice—is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself. Shiva articulates how rural Indian women experience and perceive ecological destruction and its causes, and how they have conceived and initiated processes to arrest the destruction of nature and begin its regeneration. Focusing on science and development as patriarchal projects, Staying Alive is a powerfully relevant book that positions women not solely as survivors of the crisis, but as the source of crucial insights and visions to guide our struggle.

  • by Vandana Shiva
    £18.99 - 73.49

    'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists', Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power, revealing the devastating environmental impact of corporate capitalism.*BR**BR*Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control violates all ethical and ecological limits. She takes the reader on a journey through the world's devastated eco-landscape, one of genetic engineering, industrial development and land-grabs in Africa, Asia and South America. She concludes that exploitation of this order is incurring an ecological and economic debt that is unsustainable.*BR**BR*Making Peace with the Earth outlines how a paradigm shift to earth-centred politics and economics is our only chance of survival and how collective resistance to corporate exploitation can open the way to a new environmentalism.

  • - Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics
    by Vandana Shiva
    £37.99

    As the agricultural systems of many countries are poised, as a result of the recent advances in biotechnology for what may soon come to be called the Second Green Revolution, this book is particularly appropriate. Vandana Shiva examines the impact of the first Green Revolution on the breadbasket of India. In a cogent empirical argument, she shows how the 'quick fix' promise of large gains in output pushed aside serious pursuit of an alternative agricultural strategy grounded in respect for the environmental wisdom of peasant systems and building an egalitarian, needs-prientated agriculture consistent with the village-based, endogenous political traditions of Gandhism. Dr Shiva documents the destruction of genetic diversity and soil fertility that resulted and in highly original fashion shows how the Green Revolution also contributed to the acute social and political conflicts now tearing the Punjab apart.Set in the context of a sophisticated critique of the privileged epistemological position achieved by modern science, whereby it both aspires to provide technological solutions for social and political problems while at the same time disclaiming responsibility for the new problems which it creates in its wake, the author looks to the future in an analysis of a new project to apply the latest Gene Revolution technology to India and warns of the further environmental and social damage which will ensue.

  • by Vandana Shiva
    £7.99

    In Indien ist die Kuh heilig. Das Abschlachten von Kühen würde viele Inder empören, so kommt Rindfleisch nun als "Büffelfleisch" auf den Tisch. Statt mit dem traditionsreichen Senföl wird mit dem angeblich gesünderen Sojaöl gekocht, die Getreidevielfalt weicht Standardweizen und Standardreis. Hinter diesem Wandel der indischen Ernährungsgewohnheiten stecken die Interessen der globalen Agrarindustrie. Die indische Ökofeministin Vandana Shiva beschreibt - aus dem Blickwinkel Indiens - deren jüngste Entwicklungen: Der Anbau von Genpflanzen wird vorangetrieben, die Patentierung von Tier- und Pflanzenarten setzt sich allmählich durch, das Streben nach kurzfristigem Profit verschließt den Blick für nachhaltige Lösungen zur Bekämpfung des Welthungers. Vandana Shiva ruft zum Widerstand gegen die Arroganz der Konzerne auf und kämpft für Selbstbestimmung in Ernährungsfragen. Es darf nicht sein, dass die Agrarindustrie den Menschen die Ernährung diktiert.Das ist ein Buch für all diejenigen, die sich jenseits der konventionellen Berichterstattung über die komplexen Zusammenhänge von Welthandel, Biodiversität und Ernährung informieren möchten - Christoph Hirsch, punkt.umVandana Shiva (geboren 1952 in Indien), Physikerin, Philosophin und Aktivistin, zählt zu den herausragendsten Denkerinnen unserer Zeit, besonders wenn es um die Themen Umwelt, Frauenrechte und dezentralisierte Ökonomie geht. Sie ist u.a. Gründerin und Direktorin der Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in Neu-Delhi und Verfasserin zahlreicher Publikationen zu Ökologie, Ökofeminismus und nachhaltiger Entwicklung.

  • by Vandana Shiva
    £9.99

    Im mexikanischen Grenzland zu den USA ist sauberes Trinkwasser so knapp, dass Mütter ihren Babys zum Trinken Coca-Cola und Pepsi geben – das Problem der Wasserverknappung betrifft immer mehr Menschen direkt und breitet sich in rasantem Tempo auf der ganzen Erde aus. Das "blaue Gold" wird in seiner Bedeutung als Rohstoff dem Erdöl bald den Rang ablaufen, bereits heute stehen hinter vielen so genannten ethnischen oder religiösen Konflikten Kämpfe um die Nutzung der knappen Wasserressourcen. Die Ursachen der Wasserverknappung sind vielfältig - industrielle Landwirtschaft, abgeholzte Wälder, Staudämme, Verschmutzung und Verschwendung -, der Kern des Problems ist jedoch immer derselbe: Der Kreislauf des Wassers ist zerstört, die Wasserquellen können sich nicht mehr regenerieren. Weder staatliche Kontrolle noch Privatisierung können die Situation entschärfen: Der Ausweg ist eine Rückkehr zu althergebrachten, gemeinschaftlichen Systemen der Wasserbewirtschaftung, die in vielen Regionen über Jahrhunderte funktioniert haben, bis sie dem Fortschritt oder der Gier der Mächtigeren geopfert wurden.Ein Buch, dessen Lektüre jedem, der in irgendeiner Weise gesellschaftliche oder politische Verantwortung trägt, Pflicht sein sollte - Andreas ViereckeVandana Shiva (geboren 1952 in Indien), Physikerin, Philosophin und Aktivistin, zählt zu den herausragendsten Denkerinnen unserer Zeit, besonders wenn es um die Themen Umwelt, Frauenrechte und dezentralisierte Ökonomie geht. Sie ist u.a. Gründerin und Direktorin der Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in Neu-Delhi und Verfasserin zahlreicher Publikationen zu Ökologie, Ökofeminismus und nachhaltiger Entwicklung.

  • by Vandana Shiva
    £24.49 - 46.49

    "e;Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity."e; -- Wendell Berry, from the forewordMotivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vandana Shiva became one of the world's most influential and highly acclaimed environmental and antiglobalization activists. Her groundbreaking research has exposed the destructive effects of monocultures and commercial agriculture and revealed the links between ecology, gender, and poverty. In The Vandana Shiva Reader, Shiva assembles her most influential writings, combining trenchant critiques of the corporate monopolization of agriculture with a powerful defense of biodiversity and food democracy. Containing up-to-date data and a foreword by Wendell Berry, this essential collection demonstrates the full range of Shiva's research and activism, from her condemnation of commercial seed technology, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the international agriculture industry's dependence on fossil fuels, to her tireless documentation of the extensive human costs of ecological deterioration. This important volume illuminates Shiva's profound understanding of both the perils and potential of our interconnected world and calls on citizens of all nations to renew their commitment to love and care for soil, seeds, and people.

  • - Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity
    by Vandana Shiva
    £17.99

    Connects the food crisis, peak oil, and climate change to show that a world beyond a dependence on fossil fuel and globalization is both possible and necessary. This book shows how three crises are inherently linked and that any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.

  • by Vandana Shiva
    £15.49

    A radical new vision for global food production, from one of the world's most iconic environmental thinkers.

  • - Understanding Intellectual Property Rights
    by Vandana Shiva
    £19.49

    Intellectual property rights, TRIPS, patents - all the ideas, technologies (including genes), and manipulation of life forms that are current can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations. This book explores and analyzes how intellectual copyright can be seen as corporate plunder.

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