Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge - Softcover

Shiva, Vandana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896085554 ISBN 13: 9780896085558

Publisher: South End Press, 1999

Synopsis

In this intelligently argued and principled book, internationally renowned Third World environmentalist Vandana Shiva exposes the latest frontier of the North's ongoing assault against the South's biological and other resources. Since the land, the forests, the oceans, and the atmosphere have already been colonized, eroded, and polluted, she argues, Northern capital is now carving out new colonies to exploit for gain: the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants and animals.

About this title

About the Author:

A world-renowned environmental leader and recipient of the 1993 Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award), Shiva has authored several bestselling books, most recently Earth Democracy. Activist and scientist, Shiva leads, with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, the International Forum on Globalization. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India's leading physicists.

Review:

...a path-breaking work on one of the most important issues of the coming century...a clarion call [that] should be widely read and discussed by everyone concerned with the fate of the Earth. -- Jeremy Rifkin

About this edition

• Publisher: South End Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0896085554
• ISBN 13: 9780896085558
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 148