12%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Violent Environments
Nancy Lee Peluso (Ed.)
€ 40.99
€ 36.14
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Violent Environments
Paperback. Editor(s): Peluso, Nancy Lee; Watts, Michael. Num Pages: 464 pages, 12. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 646.
Do environmental problems and processes produce violence? Current U.S. policy about environmental conflict and scholarly work on environmental security assume direct causal links between population growth, resource scarcity, and violence. This belief, a staple of governmental decision-making during both Clinton administrations and widely held in the environmental security field, depends on particular assumptions about the nature of the state, the role of population growth, and the causes of environmental degradation.The conventional understanding of environmental security, and its assumptions about the relation between violence and the environment, are challenged and refuted in Violent Environments. Chapters by geographers, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists ... Read more
Do environmental problems and processes produce violence? Current U.S. policy about environmental conflict and scholarly work on environmental security assume direct causal links between population growth, resource scarcity, and violence. This belief, a staple of governmental decision-making during both Clinton administrations and widely held in the environmental security field, depends on particular assumptions about the nature of the state, the role of population growth, and the causes of environmental degradation.The conventional understanding of environmental security, and its assumptions about the relation between violence and the environment, are challenged and refuted in Violent Environments. Chapters by geographers, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
646g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801487118
SKU
V9780801487118
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Nancy Lee Peluso (Ed.)
Nancy Lee Peluso is Professor of Environmental Social Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the coeditor of Violent Environments and coeditor, with Joseph Nevins, of Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age, both from Cornell, and the author of Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java. Michael Watts ... Read more
Reviews for Violent Environments
This important book offers a topical, richer and more complex approach to understanding the connections between population and the environment than does the current conventional wisdom. With a healthy variety of case studies and a focus both on a wide range of environmental topics and on the diverse forms of violence associated with environmental relations, Violent Environments is a unique ... Read more