Description
Book SynopsisVandana Shiva is the author of the much-acclaimed Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. Physicist, philosopher and feminist, she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy, Dehradun. She is active in citizens' action against environmental destruction, including the Chipko Movement. She is also the Science and Environment Advisor of the Third World Network.
Trade Review'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists'
The Guardian
'Shiva has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of ordinary people in India. Her fierce intellect and her disarmingly friendly, accessible manner have made her a valuable advocate for people all over the developing world.'
Ms Magazine
'The South's best known environmentalist.'
New Internationalist
'Shiva is a burst of creative energy, an intellectual power.'
The Progressive
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Science and Politics in the Green Revolution
- 2. 'Miracle Seeds' and the Destruction of Genetic Diversity
- 3. Chemical Fertilizers and Soil Fertility
- 4. Intensive Irrigation, Large Dams and Water Conflicts
- 5. The political and Cultural Costs of the Green Revolution
- 6. Pepsico for peace? The Ecological and Political Risks of the Biotechnology Revolution
- 7. The Seed and the Spinning Wheel: The Political Ecology of Technological Change
