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This book addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and sketches
the 'community economy' that grounds agricultural enterprise more
accurately than the industrial model. In its current practice,
agriculture is (in the United States but increasingly in the rest
of the world) unsustainable and destructive. The most immediately
unsustainable feature of industrial agriculture is its dependence
on the products of petroleum-as feedstock for fertilizers,
herbicides, and pesticides, and as fuel for the farm machinery and
transport of agricultural products into the cities. The problems of
agriculture and in general the food systems to which it is attached
range from the vulnerability of monocultures to new and stronger
pests to the emerging medical problem of obesity. The need for
agricultural reform is widely acknowledged; one part of the new
work being done suggests that food production in the cities may
solve several of its problems at once. This book is suitable for
both undergraduate and graduate students in agriculture and
environmental studies.
The book tracks the rise of Business Ethics as a discipline in the
United States through a review of the basic understandings of the
role of business practices in the operations of society, beginning
with Aristotle and proceeding to a review of the formative concepts
and cases in the history of American business. "
This short introduction to the discipline of Ethics in its
practical and professional applications teaches, in simplest form,
the discipline's vocabulary and forms of reasoning. It includes
illustrative cases, clear explanations of philosophical
terminology, and presents decision procedures appropriate to a
hierarchy of cases. It is meant to be a foundation for elementary
work in Ethics. "
This book tracks the growth of environmental awareness and
conservation in the United States through the major trends of the
20th century, and establishes a philosophical ground for protection
of the environment. It records a major cultural shift in the
thinking of this nation, and provides guidelines for its
continuation.
This volume tracks the development in the United States of the
field of Bioethics, Ethics applied to the disciplines of medicine,
nursing, and health care in general, including medical research and
the complex economic and political problems surrounding the
provision of medical and nursing care. It explains how the United
States developed, case by case, the central rules and principles of
ER ethics in the Health Care System. The discussion includes the
controversies centering on birth, death, clinical research,
experimental procedures (cloning, reproductive technology, organ
transplants), and ends with a substantial suggestion on the
provision of health care for all.
Poverty is an unnecessary form of human degradation and badly
conceived economics. Our thesis is that poverty can be reduced, if
not eradicated, both locally and globally. But this will occur only
if we change our shared narratives about global free enterprise,
remind ourselves that poverty is a system, and conceive of poverty
alleviation as a "bottom-up" project. There is no "one size fits
all" for poverty reduction. Rather, poverty is a system and must be
addressed locally. It is our aim, as it is the aim of the United
Nations, the World Bank, and many other organizations, to erase it
from our vocabulary and from this planet. With a series of case
studies that accompany each chapter, this book should assist
readers in thinking about poverty alleviation from a number of
perspectives, from bottom-up entrepreneurial projects,
local-corporate ventures, with public-private partnerships, from
focused philanthropy, with education and health care initiatives,
and agriculture reforms in rural communities, all with the aim of
creating a win-win result for local and partnership individuals,
organizations, and communities. The book should be useful in
various undergraduate and graduate courses on ethics, applied
ethics, developing economic systems, and poverty.
Poverty is an unnecessary form of human degradation and badly
conceived economics. Our thesis is that poverty can be reduced, if
not eradicated, both locally and globally. But this will occur only
if we change our shared narratives about global free enterprise,
remind ourselves that poverty is a system, and conceive of poverty
alleviation as a "bottom-up" project. There is no "one size fits
all" for poverty reduction. Rather, poverty is a system and must be
addressed locally. It is our aim, as it is the aim of the United
Nations, the World Bank, and many other organizations, to erase it
from our vocabulary and from this planet. With a series of case
studies that accompany each chapter, this book should assist
readers in thinking about poverty alleviation from a number of
perspectives, from bottom-up entrepreneurial projects,
local-corporate ventures, with public-private partnerships, from
focused philanthropy, with education and health care initiatives,
and agriculture reforms in rural communities, all with the aim of
creating a win-win result for local and partnership individuals,
organizations, and communities. The book should be useful in
various undergraduate and graduate courses on ethics, applied
ethics, developing economic systems, and poverty.
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