Overview
Offers interdisciplinary approaches to the challenges posed by food security and safety
Analyzes the current situation concerning food and proposes alternative solutions
Critically addresses salient issues in the ethics of food and agriculture
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Table of contents (28 papers)
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Keynote Paper
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Production and Consumption
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Distribution and the Environment
Keywords
- APSAFE 2013
- Agricultural sciences in the Asia-Pacific region
- Anthropology and Food in the Asia-Pacific region
- Challenges of balancing food safety and food security
- Consuming patterns in line with food and agriculture ethics
- Ethical lifestyle in congruence with food and agriculture
- Ethics of food and agriculture in the Asia-Pacific region
- Food ethics of the twenty-first century
- Food sciences in the Asia-Pacific region
- Food technology in the Asia-Pacific region
- Food technology in the Asia-Pacific region
- Law and Food in the Asia-Pacific region
- Philosophy and Food in the Asia-Pacific region
- Religious perspectives on food and agriculture
- Sociological perspectives on food and agriculture
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Soraj Hongladarom is an associate professor of philosophy at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. He has published books and articles on such diverse issues as bioethics, computer ethics and the roles that science and technology play in the culture of developing countries. His concern is mainly on how science and technology can be integrated into the life-world of the people in the so-called Third World countries and what kind of ethical considerations can be obtained from such relation. A large part of this question concerns how information technology is integrated in the lifeworld of the Thai people and especially how such integration is expressed in the use of information technology in education. He has organized the second and third Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy conferences at Chulalongkorn University in 2005 and 2007. His works have appeared in The Information Society, AI & Society, Philosophy in the Contemporary World and Social Epistemology, among others.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Security and Food Safety for the Twenty-first Century
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of APSAFE2013
Editors: Soraj Hongladarom
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-417-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-416-0Published: 10 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1237-2Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-417-7Published: 29 March 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 333
Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Agriculture, Food Science