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Proving grounds : militarized landscapes, weapons testing, and the environmental impact of U.S. bases / editor, Edwin A. Martini ; contributors, Yooil Bae [et al.]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Donald R. Ellegood International Publications
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military bases--United States--Environmental aspects.
- Military bases.
- Military bases, American--Environmental aspects.
- Military bases, American.
- Nuclear weapons--Testing--Environmental aspects.
- Nuclear weapons.
- United States--Military policy--Environmental aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 333 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Proving Grounds brings together a wide range of scholars across disciplines and geographical borders to deepen our understanding of the environmental impact that the U.S. military presence has had at home and abroad. The essays in this collection survey the environmental damage caused by weapons testing and military bases to local residents, animal populations, and landscapes, and they examine the military’s efforts to close and repurpose bases-often as wildlife reserves. Together they present a complex and nuanced view that embraces the ironies, contradictions, and unintended consequences of U.S. militarism around the world. In complicating our understanding of the American military’s worldwide presence, the essayists also reveal the rare cases when the military is actually ahead of the curve on environmental regulation compared to the private sector. The result is the most comprehensive examination to date of the U.S. military’s environmental footprint-for better or worse-across the globe.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Bases, Places, and the Layered Landscapes of American Empire / Edwin A. Martini; 1. Defending the Nation, Protecting the Land: Emergency Powers and the Militarization of American Public Lands / Brandon C. Davis; 2. Weather, Otters, and Bombs: Policy Making, Environmental Science, and U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1945-1958 / Neil Oatsvall; 3. Incident at Galisteo: The 1955 Teapot Series and the Mental Landscape of Contamination / Leisl Carr Childers
- 4. ""This Is Really Bad Stuff Buried Here"": Agent Orange, Johnston Atoll, and the Rise of Military Environmentalism / Edwin A. Martini5. The War on Plants: Drug Control, Militarization, and the Rehabilitation of Herbicides in U.S. Foreign Policy from Operation Ranch Hand to Plan Colombia / Daniel Weimer; 6. Addressing Environmental Risks and Mobilizing Democracy?: Policy on Public Participation in U.S. Military Superfund Sites / Jennifer Liss Ohayon; 7. Reality Revealed: U.S. Military Bases, Environmental Impact, and Civil Society in South Korea / Heejin Han and Yooil Bae
- 8. A Wildlife Insurgency: The Endangered Species Act, Citizen-Initiated Lawsuits, and the Department of Defense at the End of the Cold War / Katherine M. Keirns9. Restoration and Meaning on Former Military Lands in the United States / David G. Havlick; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295805948
- 0295805943
- OCLC:
- 910823882
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