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| Byrne, John; Glover, Leigh; Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted. |
| Organic agriculture is, like mainstream agriculture, faced with the challenges of globalization and sustainable development. Ecological justice, the fair distribution of livelihoods and environments, has emerged as a key concept in efforts, on the one hand, to resist negative consequences of globalization and ecological modernization and, on the other to propose new agenda and institutional arrangements. This chapter investigates the role that ecological justice as a political ecology strategy may have in addressing the present problems of organic agriculture in a global political economy. The investigation has two interacting elements, a theoretical analysis of the political, economic and ecological aspects of ecological justice and a discussion of how... |
| Tipo: Book chapter |
Palavras-chave: Food systems Values; Standards and certification. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/10344/1/2006-Byrne_Glover_Alroe-Globalization_and_sustainable_development-OFFPRINT_17feb2006.pdf |
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| Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted; Byrne, John; Glover, Leigh. |
| Ecological justice is a challenging concept in relation to the current development of agriculture, because it positions social and ecological interests against market liberalism and economic growth. Ecological justice concerns fairness with regard to the common environment based on the idea that environments are fundamen-tally shared. This chapter investigates the role that ecological justice may have in relation to the global challenges of organic agriculture. We perform a philoso-phical analysis of the ethics of ecological justice and the relation to sustainability and globalization. On this basis, we discuss the challenges that this important concept poses to organic agriculture and how it can be put into organic practice. Organic agriculture is in an... |
| Tipo: Book chapter |
Palavras-chave: Food systems Values; Standards and certification. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/3877/1/3877.pdf |
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