Governing the Global Food System Towards the Sustainocene with Artificial Photosynthesis

dc.contributor.authorFaunce, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorBruce, Alex
dc.contributor.editorSteier, Gabriela
dc.contributor.editorPatel, Kiran K.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-26T01:33:48Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2019-04-14T08:25:14Z
dc.description.abstractThe development of the current global food production system has been predicated on multinational corporate market power coupled with the intensive use of pesticides and carbon-intensive fuels in mechanised, massive scale agricultural and slaughtered animal production and transportation (i.e., tractors, harvesters, trucks and container ships) but also in the production of fertilizer (particularly via the Haber-Bosch process for the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia and in the phosphate industry). Our central hypothesis is that this corporatized global food system is fundamentally damaging to the sustainability of our environment and inhibitory of the growth of distributed or decentralised organic farming which is more likely to be the mainstay of food production in a future where humanity individually and collectively flourishes as stewards of resilient ecosystems. In the course of analysing that hypothesis we explore whether appropriate global governance of new renewable energy and climate change mitigation technologies such as artificial photosynthesis may accelerate transition to such a reformed global food system in an epoch conveniently termed the Sustainocene. In particular we examine whether and if so how international food law and policy can assist nanotechnology-based artificial photosynthesis become an 'off-grid' distributed family and community-based combined food, energy, water and climate change solution that establishes stable preconditions for humanity to realise its full potential as an ethical species.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn9783319075419en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/165192
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherSpringer International Publishing Switzerlanden_AU
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Food Law and Policyen_AU
dc.rights© 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerlanden_AU
dc.source.urihttps://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319075419en_AU
dc.titleGoverning the Global Food System Towards the Sustainocene with Artificial Photosynthesisen_AU
dc.typeBook chapteren_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage406en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationSwitzerland
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage373en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationFaunce, Thomas, ANU College of Law, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationBruce, Alexander, ANU College of Law, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu9705219@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidFaunce, Thomas, u9705219en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidBruce, Alexander, u9908930en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor180111 - Environmental and Natural Resources Lawen_AU
local.identifier.absseo920499 - Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health) not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu1444330xPUB26en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-07542-6_18en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu1444330en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://link.springer.comen_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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