Paul B Thompson

What Is Agriculture For?

Archetypes for Future Food Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What Is Agriculture For? describes four contrasting rationales for technical and policy change in agriculture and food systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 168mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780197625750
• ISBN-10: 0197625754
• Artikelnr.: 74070979

Autorenporträt

Paul B. Thompson is Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University where he was the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food, and Community Ethics from 2003 until 2022. He held the Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics at Purdue University from 1997 to 2003. All of Thompson's academic positions have been joint appointments between philosophy and each university's college of agriculture and natural resources.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Four Archetypes for Future Food Systems
Chapter 2: Archetypes, Imaginaries, and the Philosophy of Technology
Chapter 3: Technological Modernization and Industrial Agriculture
Chapter 4: Science and Sustainable Intensification
Chapter 5: Rural Resilience and the Food Movement
Chapter 6: Urban Agriculture: The Food Movement Moves On
Chapter 7: Gaps, Overlaps, and the Political Ecology of Food Systems
Chapter 8: Deep Agrarianism