Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change
Paul Thompson
Wednesday, 13 Apr 2011 at 3:10 pm – 2050 Agronomy
Paul Thompson is the Kellogg Chair in Agriculture, Food, and Community at Michigan State University. He joined the Philosophy Department at Michigan State in 2003, with partial appointments in the Agricultural Economics and Resource Development Departments. His previous academic positions included distinguished professor of philosophy at Purdue University, where he also served as director of the Center for Food Animal Productivity and Well-Being, and professor of philosophy and agricultural economics at Texas A&M University, where he was director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy and Ethics. He is the author of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics and editor of The Ethics of Intensification: Agricultural Development and Cultural Change and What Can Nanotechnology Learn from Biotechnology? Part of the Live Green! Sustainability Series.Cosponsored By:
- Bioethics Program
- Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture
- Office of Biotechnology
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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