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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jurgen Brauer |
| ISBN: | 9780759112063 0759112061 9780759119291 0759119295 |
| OCLC Number: | 320622563 |
| Description: | xviii, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Globalization, nature, and war : 1.1. Natural resource consumption by armed forces ; 1.2. Nuclear war and nuclear weapons testing ; 1.3. Need and greed as causes of war ; 1.4. Measuring the environmental damage : Classifying war-related environmental damage ; The data: finding out what really happened ; 1.5. The environment in international law of war ; Appendix: Why nuclear weapons? -- 2. The Vietnam War : 2.1. Bombing, bulldozing, and other nonherbicidal destruction ; 2.2. Herbicide attacks : Background ; Inland forests: terrestrial plant ecology and forestry ; Forest fauna: animal ecology ; Herbicide persistence, mobility, and soil ecology ; Coastal, marine, and aquatic ecology ; Long-term effects -- 3. The Persian Gulf War : 3.1. The Persian Gulf : Scientific missions and data gathering ; Geography and oceanography of the Western Persian Gulf ; 3.2. Marine environments : Supratidal and intertidal areas ; Benthic communities, fish, shrimp, coral reefs, and islands ; Marine mammals and turtles ; 3.3. Birds : Shorebirds ; Seabirds -- 4. Civil war and borderland effects : 4.1. Rwanda and the Eastern Congo ; 4.2. Afghanistan and Pakistan : Afghanistan ; The effects of the Afghan wars on Pakistan -- 5. War and nature in a globalized world : 5.1. Findings : Big wars, small effects? Small wars, big effects? ; Firepower and mobility ; Refugees and returnees ; Conservation by default ; Benefits of war, costs of peace ; 5.2. A way forward : Perspectives and standards matter ; Continuous biomonitoring and rapid assessment matter ; Preparation and communication matter ; Incentives in a globalized world matter ; 5.3. In sum: Preventing war, preserving nature. |
| Series Title: | Globalization and the environment. |
| Responsibility: | Jurgen Brauer. |
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Globalization has brought benefits to many, but these benefits have not come without costs. One of the hidden costs has been the increasingly negative impact of violent conflict on the environment. War and Nature provides a fresh perspective on this problem, drawing on concrete examples from Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Central Africa, and Afghanistan. This evidence-based approach effectively provides guidance on how best to avoid environmental degradation in time of war, providing useful tools for politicians, peace-makers, and even the military. This book deserves wide circulation and broad discussion by both practitioners and academics. -- Jeffrey A. McNeely War and Nature would be a masterful summary, except that there have not been many studies of the effects of war on the environment, and even fewer prewar baseline studies of affected areas. So there is not much to summarize, but the book does provide thorough coverage of the existing data... The book contains abundant notes and other academic apparatus... Highly recommended. Choice, March 2010 War and Nature makes a major contribution to the literature. The scholarship is exemplary and the author's command of the relevant literature is remarkable. This book should be required reading within governmental ministries of foreign affairs, environment, and defense. Officials and practitioners in intergovernmental agencies and international NGOs would also benefit from taking this book's information and message to heart. -- Arthur H. Westing Read more...
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