Situating Earth Democracy: Vandana Shiva on Agroecology, Contemporary Politics and Resilience

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-216
Author(s):  
Christopher Hrynkow
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
The World

This article focuses on three works authored by Vandana Shiva and recently published by Zed Books. It employs these books as dialogical aids to map her thought in its political and ethical dimensions as they relate to peace, sustainability, and social justice. More specifically, after a brief introduction and a biographical discussion, this article situates her vision of Earth Democracy as a means to tie together Shiva’s inter-related reflections in the areas of agroecology, contemporary politics, and resilience. Comment is then offered concerning the tension and promises of Shiva’s treatment of these issues. The reader of this article is left with several points of entry to understand Shiva’s contributions to discourses on sustainable agriculture, nonviolent political change, and resilient sustainability. Shiva V (2016a) Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace. London: Zed Books. Shiva V (2016b) Soil, Not Oil: Climate Change, Peak Oil. London: Zed Books. Shiva V (2016c) Who Really Feeds the World? London: Zed Books.

scholarly journals The Impacts of Climate Change on Agricultural Production and Sustainable Agriculture of Smallholder Farmers in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1100-1107
Author(s):  
Nguyen Van Phu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
The World

Climate change is one of the greatest threats to human beings, and agriculture is one of the fields that is most negatively affected by climate change. Farmers around the world and global food supply chains are impacted by the more extreme weather phenomena and increased damage of diseases and pests caused by climate change. Today, almost all agricultural enterprises and farms consider climate change a serious long-term risk for their production. Agricultural land systems can produce significant greenhouse gases (GHGs) by the conversion of forests to crop- and animal lands, and also through the weak management of crops and livestock. Around the world, cultivation and cattle production accounts for 25% of global GHG emissions (Javeline, ‎2014). However, under suitable conditions, agriculture can create environmental conditions that can help minimize pollution and the negative effects of climate change including carbon absorption by green plants in forests, and fields for watershed protection and biodiversity conservation. Sustainable agriculture helps farmers to adapt, maintain, and improve productivity without applying harmful techniques. In turn, this allows farms to manage and mitigate climate-related risks in their supply chains. The Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) has found new ways to incorporate smart climate cultivation methods into all farming practices to help farms and enterprises carry out agriculture sustainably.

Climate strikes: Their value in engaging and educating secondary school students

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-11
Author(s):  
Ria Bright ◽  
Chris Eames
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Curriculum Planning ◽  
School Students ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Worldwide Phenomenon ◽  
Political Literacy

The climate strikes of 2019, an extraordinary worldwide phenomenon, swiftly and succinctly showed the world the collective concern of youth. What insights might curriculum planning for climate-change education and classroom pedagogy gain from these climate strikes? Preliminary findings from this study identified four significant considerations in regard to climate-change education. First, the soaring level of climate anxiety among youth. Secondly, political literacy is as important as climate-change literacy for action. Thirdly, social justice is the key to engaging students in climate-change education. Fourthly, an inquiry-based pedagogy that considers the academic (head), emotional (heart), and practical (hands) is appropriate for climate-change education.

Climate Smart Sustainable Agriculture

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
Luis Loures ◽  
Paulo Ferreira ◽  
Ana Loures ◽  
Vera Barradas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Conservation Agriculture ◽  
Agricultural Ecosystems ◽  
Smart Farming ◽  
The World ◽  
Careful Management

Careful management of agricultural ecosystems is considered a vital procedure to ensure both environmental health and the sustainability of this sector, particularly when, besides all the argumentative used by farmers, there are no globally accepted sustainable management solutions for agriculture. This scenario poses several challenges for the agricultural sector all over the world, especially on an increasing climate change situation, in which extreme weather phenomena tend to be gradually more severe, as is the case of floods and draughts. Still, considering that the last decades were marked by great developments in agricultural management systems as is the case of precision agriculture, hi-tech-agriculture, organic farming, conservation agriculture, sustainable agriculture, smart farming, among others, it is crucial to assess specific case studies, in which the application of predetermined sustainable farming principles and/or procedures contributed to increase their resilience to climate change on a sustainable manner.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Brian Wampler ◽  
Stephanie McNulty ◽  
Michael Touchton
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Program Design ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
The World

This chapter introduces the reader to PB’s core principles and basic institutional design. The core principles include voice, vote, social justice, social inclusion, and oversight. All PB programs adhere to these principles, but each program gives different weights to each principle, which helps to account for the differences in program design around the world. The chapter provides a detailed explanation of PB, based on the Porto Alegre model, which emerged as the early example that other governments sought to replicate. The chapter also introduces three guiding questions that shape the rest of the book: How has PB transformed during the past thirty years as it spreads around the globe? What are the causal mechanisms through which PB programs may produce social and political change? To what extent have PB programs actually generated this social and political change? The authors emphasize these questions as critical for advancing theoretical and empirical debates surrounding PB as well as participatory democratic institutions in general.

How can archaeologists usefully contribute to public policy considerations?

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy A. Sabloff
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Economy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cultural Ecological ◽  
John Day ◽  
Industrial Societies

I would like to focus my brief remarks on Shannon Dawdy's very important third question, ‘can archaeology save the world?’ But to show my biases up front, I would rephrase it to read, ‘how can archaeologists usefully contribute to public policy considerations on the future of this planet?’, or perhaps just modify her question to say, ‘how can archaeologists help save the world?’ As one looks at recent books such as Newman, Beatley and Boyer's Resilient cities. Responding to peak oil and climate change (2009), Richard Heinberg's The party's over. Oil, war and the fate of industrial societies (2005), or Howard and Elisabeth Odum's A prosperous way down (2001) or key articles such as ‘Ecology in times of scarcity’ by John Day et al. (2009) or ‘Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy’ by Mathis Wackernagel et al. (2002), it seems clear to me that archaeologists could readily amplify the important arguments mounted by these authors and play a useful role in helping planners confront looming global cultural–ecological issues. It is not that these writers are unaware of archaeology and its potential contributions – Heinberg (2005, 34–38), for example, looks quite favorably on the work of Joseph Tainter – but that archaeological research could be more thoroughly and productively utilized.

The Politics of the Anthropocene

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek ◽  
Jonathan Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Catastrophic Failure ◽  
Earth System ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World

The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities. However, the world remains stuck with practices and modes of thinking that were developed in the Holocene – the epoch of around 12,000 years of unusual stability in the Earth system, toward the end of which modern institutions such as states and capitalist markets arose. These institutions persist despite their potentially catastrophic failure to respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene, foremost among them a rapidly changing climate and accelerating biodiversity loss. The pathological trajectories of these institutions need to be disrupted by advancing ecological reflexivity: the capacity of structures, systems, and sets of ideas to question their own core commitments, and if necessary change themselves, while listening and responding effectively to signals from the Earth system. This book envisages a world in which humans are no longer estranged from the Earth system but engage with it in a more productive relationship. We can still pursue democracy, social justice, and sustainability – but not as before. In future, all politics should be first and foremost a politics of the Anthropocene. The arguments are developed in the context of issues such as climate change, biodiversity, and global efforts to address sustainability.

Efforts to Update the Climate Emergency Framework: From Australia to the World and Back to Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Hans A. Baer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
System Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
The World

Abstract The climate emergency framework, which started in Australia around 2008, has been adopted in many countries, particularly the United States and United Kingdom. In terms of the Australian scenario, in my dual roles as an anthropologist and climate activist, I witnessed the initial development of the climate emergency framework and more recent efforts to update it in Australia at the 2020 National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne on February 14–15, 2020. From my perspective as an eco-socialist, I argue that the climate emergency framework seeks to operate within the parameters of global capitalism and in doing so downplays social justice issues. There is a need for the climate emergency movement to become part and parcel of a larger climate justice movement, not simply a climate movement that emphasizes techno-fixes, and that says, “system change, not climate change.”

Climate Change, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: The World After the Paris Agreement

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Antonio Bombelli ◽  
Arianna Di Paola ◽  
Maria Vincenza Chiriacò ◽  
Lucia Perugini ◽  
Simona Castaldi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
The World ◽  
Agriculture And Food

The World Economic Forum Principles on "Climate Governance on Corporate Boards": can soft law help to face climate change around the world?

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Sabrina Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Financial Factor ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

Climate change is a financial factor that carries with it risks and opportunities for companies. To support boards of directors of companies belonging to all jurisdictions, the World Economic Forum issued in January 2019 eight Principlescontaining both theoretical and practical provisions on: climate accountability, competence, governance, management, disclosure and dialogue. The paper analyses each Principle to understand scope and managerial consequences for boards and to evaluate whether the legal distinctions, among the various jurisdictions, may undermine the application of the Principles or, by contrast, despite the differences the Principles may be a useful and effective guidance to drive boards' of directors' conduct around the world in handling climate change challenges. Five jurisdictions are taken into consideration for this comparative analysis: Europe (and UK), US, Australia, South Africa and Canada. The conclusion is that the WEF Principles, as soft law, is the best possible instrument to address boards of directors of worldwide companies, harmonise their conduct and effectively help facing such global emergency.

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