Warfare in a Fragile World: Military Impact on the Human Environment

Warfare in a Fragile World: Military Impact on the Human Environment
ISBN-10
0850661870
ISBN-13
9780850661873
Category
History / Military / General
Pages
249
Language
English
Published
1980
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Authors
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Arthur H. Westing

Description

"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.

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