Environmental Violence: In the Earth System and the Human Niche

ISBN-13: 9781009170796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Richard A. (University of Notre Dame) Marcantonio

Opis

The book develops the concept of environmental violence as a potent tool to identify, track, reduce environmental threats to humanity.

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Recenzje

'Deftly contrasting direct violence - usually clear and straightforward in action - with environmental violence - that often lacks a direct perpetrator-victim link - Marcantonio takes the reader on an informative and meaningful journey of discovery. Navigating the social, ecological, and structural impacts and processes of anthropogenic ecosystems and their landscapes, and legacies, of environmental harm, Marcantonio demonstrates how, and why, the perturbations caused by structural and institutional inequities are central in the human capacities to live, resist, and flourish in the 21st century. Marcantonio's model acts to identify key mechanisms of crisis and highlight particularly crucial points of disturbance by integrating core anthropological and peace studies methodologies with methods from across the environmental sciences. This book presents a holistic social and environmental understanding of contemporary crises facing the Earth System and the Human Niche.' Agustín Fuentes, Princeton University

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Approaching environmental violence; 2. Environmental violence defined; 3. Environmental violence across the global ecosystem and in the contemporary human niche; 4. The flow of environmental violence on the Pampana River, Sierra Leone: Mining and toxic pollution; 5. Environmental violence in everyday island life: Non-toxic pollution and extreme weather; 6. Reflections, findings, and future applications of the environmental violence framework; 7. Ethics, policy, and trajectories of environmental violence; References; Index.