By Edwin A. Martini
ISBN-10: 0295741716
ISBN-13: 9780295741710
ISBN-10: 0295994657
ISBN-13: 9780295994659
Proving Grounds brings jointly quite a lot of students throughout disciplines and geographical borders to deepen our realizing of the environmental effect that the U.S. army presence has had at domestic and in another country. The essays during this assortment survey the environmental harm brought on by guns trying out and armed forces bases to neighborhood citizens, animal populations, and landscapes, they usually learn the military�s efforts to shut and repurpose bases�often as flora and fauna reserves. jointly they current a posh and nuanced view that embraces the ironies, contradictions, and unintentional results of U.S. militarism worldwide. In complicating our knowing of the yankee military�s around the world presence, the essayists additionally show the infrequent situations whilst the army is basically prior to the curve on environmental law in comparison to the non-public zone. the result's the main finished exam up to now of the U.S. military�s environmental footprint�for larger or worse�across the globe.
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