John W Head

Deep Agroecology and the Homeric Epics

Global Cultural Reforms for a Natural-Systems Agriculture

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the Homeric epics, this multidisciplinary work focuses on the cultural transformations which need to take place in order to transition from today's a modern extractive agriculture to a sustainable natural¿systems agriculture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780367622190
• ISBN-10: 036762219X
• Artikelnr.: 60010823

Autorenporträt

John W. Head is Wagstaff Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law, USA. Previously, he worked for ten years in legal practice. He is the author of several books on international and comparative law, including Global Legal Regimes to Protect the World's Grasslands (2012), Great Legal Traditions: Civil Law, Common Law, and Chinese Law in Historical and Operational Perspective (2014), International Law and Agroecological Husbandry (2016), Global Business Law: Principles and Practice of International Commerce and Investment (2018), and A Global Corporate Trust for Agroecological Integrity (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Orientation: the challenge and the project 2. The Iliad
the Odyssey
Agriculture
and Climate Change 3. Achilles: mênis
kleos
and aristeia 4. Agroecological husbandry: new roots for agriculture 5. Homo sapiens nobilus : trustees for the athanatoi 6. Eco-states and anthro-states: new roots for sovereignty 7. Odysseus: mêtis
nostos
and polútropos 8. Gaia
gods
governance
and xenia: creating a new epic 9. Detour: Beyond the Greeks
beyond the West 10. Moira: What is the (agroecological) fate of our godlike species?