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05681aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 AF75C550239311E9A16D344A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190129010118 008 170410s2017 vaua 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2017934406 020 $a 9781682570791 020 $a 1682570797 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d DON $d OCLCF $d UOK $d VP@ $d IDB $d DLC $d SILO 050 14 $a TD195.W29 $b W37 2017 082 04 $a 577.274 $2 23 245 04 $a The war and environment reader / $c Gar Smith, editor. 264 1 $a Charlottesville, Virginia : $b Just World Books, $c 2017. 300 $a xv, 318 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "While many books have examined the broader topic of military conflict, most neglect to focus on damage military violence inflicts on regional--and global--ecosystems. The War and Environment Reader provides a critical analysis of the devastating consequences of "war on the environment" with perspectives drawn from a wide array of diverse voices and global perspectives. The contributors include scores of writers and activists, many with first-hand field experience of war's impacts on nature. Authors include: Medea Benjamin, Helen Caldicott, Marjorie Cohn, Daniel Ellsberg, Robert Fisk, Ann Jones, Michael Klare, Winona LaDuke, Jerry Mander, Margaret Mead, Vandana Shiva, David Swanson, Jody Williams and S. Brian Willson."--Amazon.com. 505 00 $t International peace and environmental organizations. $t Beyond terracide and permawar / $r United Nations Environment Programme -- $t Permawar -- human nature and war. $t The roots of war. $t Stones to drones: a history of war on earth / $r Gar Smith ; $t Patriarchy and war: treating nature like dirt / $r Vandana Shiva ; $t U.S. exceptionalism: the hubris that fuels wars / $r Marjorie Cohn ; $t Blowback: climate change and resource wars / $r Michael T. Klare ; $t War is not biological / $r Margaret Mead ; $t Lessons from the bonobos / $r Sally Jewell Coxe -- $t The business of war. $t War is a racket / $r Smedley Butler ; $t War as an economic strategy / $r Jerry Mander ; $t An empire of military bases / $r High Gusterson ; $t The high costs of a warfare economy / $r Dave Gilson ; $t Disaster capitalism on the battlefield / $r William J. Astore ; $t "False flage": how wars are packaged and sold / $r James Corbett ; $t Banking on the bomb: investing in nuclear weapons / $r Wilbert van de Zeijden ; $t Recruiting America's child soldiers / $r Ann Jones -- $t Terracide -- the war on nature. $t Nature in the crosshairs. $t Afghanistan: bombing the land of the snow leopard / $r Joshua Frank ; $t Africa: wars on wildlife / $r Jane Goodall ; $t El Salvador: scorched earth in Central America / $r Gar Smith ; $t Guam: the tip of America's global spear / $r Catherine Lutz ; $t Kuwait: the war that wounded the world / $r William Thomas ; $t Serbia: the impact of NATO's bombs / $r Phillip Frazer ; $t Sardinia: bombs and cancer in paradise / $r Helen Jaccard ; $t Vietnam: delivering death to the A Luoi Valley / $r Elizabeth Kemf -- $t Collateral damage. Baghdad: a civilization torn to pieces / $r Robert Fisk ; $t Ukraine: civil war and combat pollution / $r Doug Weir ; $t Syria: cities reduced to toxic rubble / $r Wim Zwignenburg and Kristine te Pas ; $t Wars and refugees / $r Tom H. Hastings ; $t Civilian victims of killer drones / $r Medea Benjamin ; $t The navy's sonic war on whales / $r Pierce Brosnan -- $t A field guide to militarism. $t The militarization of native lands / $r Winona LaDuke ; $t Wars are no longer fought on battlefields / $r David Swanson ; $t War on land: toxic burdens and military exercises / $r Susan D. Lanier-Graham ; $t War on the sea: islands under siege / $r Koohan Paik ; $t Wars for sand: the mortar of empires / $r Denis Delestrac ; $t War at a distance: long-range missiles / $r Jon Letman ; $t War in space: astro-imperialism / $r Karl Grossman -- $t The machinery of mayhem. $t Fueling the engines of empire / $r Barry Sanders ; $t Superpower, superpolluter / $r Tyrone Savage ; $t Jet fright: the impacts of military aircraft / $r Petra Loesch ; $t Land mines: the smallest WMDs / $r Jody Williams ; $t Explosive arsenals: "bomblets" in "near-nukes" / $r Helen Caldicott ; $t Weather as a weapon: "owning the weather in 2025" / $r U.S. Air Force ; $t Nuclear doomsday / $r Daniel Ellsberg -- $t The aftermath. $t Graveyaards, waste, and war junk / $r Susan D. Lanier-Graham ; $t The Pentagon's toxic burn pits / $r Katie Drummond ; $t America's "downwinders" / $r James Lerager ; $t Atomic islands and "jellyfish babies" / $r Darlene Keju-Johnson ; $t Haunted by memories of war / $r S. Brian Wilson ; $t The war zone: that became a new Eden / $r Lisa Brady -- $t Ecolibrium -- pathways to a planet at peace. $t Toward ecolibrium. $t Take the profit out of war / $r Smedley Butler ; $t Ecology and war / $r David Brower ; $t Why we oppose war and militarism / $r Environmentalists Against War ; $t In defense of the environment / $r Klaus Toepfer ; $t Protecting nature from war / $r United Nations Environment Programme -- $t Strategies for a more peaceful world -- $t International peace and environmental organizations. 650 0 $a War $x Environmental aspects. 650 0 $a War $x Economic aspects. 650 0 $a Military weapons $x Environmental aspects. 650 0 $a Environmental degradation $x Social aspects. 650 7 $a Environmental degradation $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912893 650 7 $a Military weapons $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01021582 650 7 $a War $x Economic aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170335 650 7 $a War $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170340 700 1 $a Smith, Gar, $e editor. 941 $a 2 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718093007.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190129010434.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AF75C550239311E9A16D344A97128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search