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Arthur H. Westing

Author : Arthur H. Westing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642313221
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Arthur H. Westing written by Arthur H. Westing and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s the environment has become an issue of increasing public concern in North America and elsewhere. Triggered by the Second Indochina War (Vietnam Conflict) of 1961-1975, and further encouraged by the International Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, the environmental impact of war emerged and grew as a topic of research in the natural and the social sciences. And in the late 1980s this led additionally to a focus and debate on environmental security. Arthur Westing, a forest ecologist, was a major pioneer contributing and framing both of those debates conceptually, theoretically, and empirically, starting with Harvest of Death: Chemical Warfare in Vietnam and Cambodia (1972) (co-authored with wildlife biologist E.W. Pfeiffer and others). As a Senior Researcher at the Stockholm and Oslo International Peace Research Institutes (SIPRI and PRIO), and as a Professor of Ecology at Windham and Hampshire Colleges, Westing authored and edited books on Ecological Consequences of the Second Indochina War (1976), Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Environment (1977), Warfare in a Fragile World: Military Impact on the Human Environment (1980), Herbicides in War: the Long-term Ecological and Human Consequences (1984), Environmental Warfare: a Technical, Legal and Policy Appraisal (1984), Explosive Remnants of War: Mitigating the Environmental Effects (1985), Global Resources and International Conflict: Environmental Factors in Strategic Policy and Action (1986), Cultural Norms, War and the Environment (1988), Comprehensive Security for the Baltic: an Environmental Approach (1989), and Environmental Hazards of War: Releasing Dangerous Forces in an Industrialized World (1990) --- as well as authoring numerous UN reports, book chapters, and journal articles. This volume combines six of his pioneering contributions on the environmental consequences of warfare in Viet Nam and in Kuwait, on the environmental impact of nuclear war, and on legal constraints and military guidelines for protecting the environment in wartime

Cultural Norms, War and the Environment

Author : Arthur H. Westing
Publisher : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780198291251
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Norms, War and the Environment written by Arthur H. Westing and published by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. This book was released on 1988 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is an outgrowth of a select symposium convened by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in co-operation with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Stockholm, 15-18 March 1987.

Herbicides in War

Author : Arthur H. Westing
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Herbicides in War written by Arthur H. Westing and published by Taylor & Francis Group. This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbicides in war: past and present; Terrestrial plant ecology and forestry; Terrestrial animal ecology; Soil ecology; Coastal, aquatic and marine ecology; Cancer and clinical epidemiology; Reproductive epidemiology; Experimental toxicology and cytogenetics; Dioxin chemistry.

From Environmental to Comprehensive Security

Author : Arthur H. Westing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319006878
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book From Environmental to Comprehensive Security written by Arthur H. Westing and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents the evolution of the traditional concept of "national security" as military security to additionally embrace "environmental security" and then necessarily also "social (societal) security", thence to be termed "comprehensive human security". It accomplishes this primarily by presenting 11 of the author's own benchmark papers published between 1983 and 2010 (additionally providing bibliographic citations to a further 36 of the author's related publications during that period). The work stresses the importance of transfrontier (regional) cooperation, and also recognizes global overpopulation as a key impediment to achieving comprehensive human security.

The Environmental Consequences of War

Author : Jay E. Austin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780209
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Environmental Consequences of War written by Jay E. Austin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental devastation caused by military conflict has been witnessed in the wake of the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Kosovo conflict. This book brings together leading international lawyers, military officers, scientists and economists to examine the legal, political, economic and scientific implications of wartime damage to the natural environment and public health. The book considers issues raised by the application of humanitarian norms and legal rules designed to protect the environment, and the destructive nature of war. Contributors offer an analysis and critique of the existing law of war framework, lessons from peacetime environmental law, means of scientific assessment and economic valuation of ecological and public health damage, and proposals for future legal and institutional developments. This book provides a contemporary forum for interdisciplinary analysis of armed conflict and the environment, and explores ways to prevent and redress wartime environmental damage.

Warfare in a Fragile World

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warfare in a Fragile World written by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among the crucial problems that confront mankind today are those associated with a degraded environment. This book examines the extent to which warfare and other military activities contribute to such degradation. The military capability to damage the environment and to cause ecological disruption has escalated, and there is no sign that the level of conflict in the world is decreasing. The military use and abuse of each of the several major global habitats -- temperate, tropical, desert, arctic, insular, and oceanic -- are evalusated separately in the light of the civil use and abuse of that habitat"--Dust jacket.

Warfare Ecology

Author : Gary E. Machlis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400712138
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Warfare Ecology written by Gary E. Machlis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-29 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is specific and ambitious: to outline the distinctive elements, scope, and usefulness of a new and emerging field of applied ecology named warfare ecology. Based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, the book provides both a theoretical overview of this new field and case studies that range from mercury contamination during World War I in Slovenia to the ecosystem impacts of the Palestinian occupation, and from the bombing of coral reefs of Vieques to biodiversity loss due to violent conflicts in Africa. Warfare Ecology also includes reprints of several classical papers that set the stage for the new synthesis described by the authors. Written for environmental scientists, military and humanitarian relief professionals, conservation managers, and graduate students in a wide range of fields, Warfare Ecology is a major step forward in understanding the relationship between war and ecological systems.

Explosive Remnants of War

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Explosive Remnants of War written by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and published by Taylor & Francis Group. This book was released on 1985 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ecological Consequences of the Second Indochina War

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Consequences of the Second Indochina War written by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Environment

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Environment written by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book describes several weapons of mass destruction and examines the extent and duration of environmental damage to be expected from them"--Jacket.

Herbicides in War the Long-term Ecological and Human Consequences

Author : A. H. WESTING (ed)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Herbicides in War the Long-term Ecological and Human Consequences written by A. H. WESTING (ed) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dictionary of Natural Resource Management

Author : Katherine Dunster
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774842261
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Natural Resource Management written by Katherine Dunster and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most up-to-date and comprehensive reference work available, Dictionary of Natural Resource Management provides a single source of definitions of natural resource management terms. It includes more than 6,000 entries, many of them illustrated and annotated, and a detailed set of appendices covering conversion factors, geological time scales, and classifications of organisms.

Conflict and the Environment

Author : N.P. Gleditsch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940158947X
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Conflict and the Environment written by N.P. Gleditsch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nils Petter Gleditsch International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) & Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trond heim This book could hardly have happened but for the end of the Cold War. The decline of the East-West conflict has opened up the arena for increased attention to other lines of conflict, in Europe and at the global level. Environmental disruption, not a new phenomenon by any means, is a chief beneficiary of the shift in priorities in the public debate. The Scientific and Environmental Affairs Divi sion of NATO has moved with the times and has defined environmental security as one of its priority areas for cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union. This book is the main output of an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW), held in Bolkesjl/l, Norway, 12-16 June 1996. I would like to acknowledge the personal support of L. Veiga da Cunha, Director of the Priority Area on Environmental Security. Research on these issues is now very much a collaborative effort across former lines of division in Europe. NATO encourages, indeed requires, that this be reflected in the composition of the participants, as well as the organizing committee. This meeting was organized by a group of five people from five different countries: Lothar Brock (Germany), Nils Petter Gleditsch (Norway), Thomas Homer-Dixon (Canada), Renat Perelet (Co-Director, Russia), and Evan Vlachos (USA).

Environmental Hazards of War

Author : International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Hazards of War written by International Peace Research Institute and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the facts on how the conventional weapons present today in the arsenals of the major nations could lead to environmental destruction over huge areas for long periods of time.

Development without Destruction

Author : Nico Schrijver
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025300456X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Development without Destruction written by Nico Schrijver and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1945, the UN has been actively engaged in conceptualizing strategies for both economic development and a sustainable environment. From a broad historical perspective, Development without Destruction sketches the role played by organizations and individuals in the UN system in developing and consolidating principles of international law and international governance with respect to natural resource management. Nico Schrijver highlights the UN's efforts to generate and implement strategies to resolve tensions between economic development and environmental protection, conservation and exploitation, sovereignty and internationalism, and armed conflict and peaceful access to natural resources. Schrijver's thorough analysis is an indispensable guide to management of the critical environmental issues on today's global agenda.

Global Resources and International Conflict

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780198291046
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Global Resources and International Conflict written by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and published by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. This book was released on 1986 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study evaluates the influence of geographical distribution of natural resources and differential population growth on strategic and military policymaking and presents an expanded, environmentally-based view of international security.

The Biosphere

Author : Vladimir I. Vernadsky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461217504
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book The Biosphere written by Vladimir I. Vernadsky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vladimir Vernadsky was a brilliant and prescient scholar-a true scientific visionary who saw the deep connections between life on Earth and the rest of the planet and understood the profound implications for life as a cosmic phenomenon." -DAVID H. GRINSPOON, AUTHOR OF VENUS REVEALED "The Biosphere should be required reading for all entry level students in earth and planetary sciences." -ERIC D. SCHNEIDER, AUTHOR OF INTO THE COOL: THE NEW THERMODYNAMICS OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION