LEADER 04450nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910437948703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-63123-7 010 $a9786613943682 010 $a3-642-31322-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-642-31322-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000250246 035 $a(EBL)994143 035 $a(OCoLC)808817275 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000736387 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11476143 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000736387 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10771550 035 $a(PQKB)10290666 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-642-31322-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC994143 035 $a(PPN)168319098 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000250246 100 $a20111102h20122013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aArthur H. Westing $epioneer on the environmental impact of war /$fArthur H. Westing 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 $aHeidleberg $cSpringer$d2012, c2013 215 $a1 online resource (153 p.) 225 0 $aSpringerBriefs on pioneers in science and practice ;$v1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-642-31321-3 327 $aPart I: War and the environment -- The environmental impact of war: a personal retrospective -- What next?: a search for environmental security in war and peace -- The author's relevant papers: a selective listing -- Part II: Benchmark papers by the author: an annotated selection -- The Second Indochina War of 1961?1975: its environmental impact -- The Gulf War of 1991: its environmental impact -- Environmental war: hostile manipulations of the environment.-Nuclear war: its environmental impact -- Protecting the environment in war: legal constraints -- Protecting the environment in war: military guidelines. 330 $aSince the 1960s the environment has become an issue of increasing public concern in North America and elsewhere.  Triggered by the Second Indochina War (Vietnam Conflict) of 1961-1975, and further encouraged by the International Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, the environmental impact of war emerged and grew as a topic of research in the natural and the social sciences.  And in the late 1980s this led additionally to a focus and debate on environmental security.  Arthur Westing, a forest ecologist, was a major pioneer contributing and framing both of those debates conceptually, theoretically, and empirically, starting with Harvest of Death:  Chemical Warfare in Vietnam and Cambodia (1972) (co-authored with wildlife biologist E.W. Pfeiffer and others).  As a Senior Researcher at the Stockholm and Oslo International Peace Research Institutes (SIPRI and PRIO), and as a Professor of Ecology at Windham and Hampshire Colleges, Westing authored and edited books on Ecological Consequences of the Second Indochina War (1976), Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Environment (1977), Warfare in a Fragile World:  Military Impact on the Human Environment (1980), Herbicides in War:  the Long-term Ecological and Human Consequences (1984), Environmental Warfare:  a Technical, Legal and Policy Appraisal (1984), Explosive Remnants of War:  Mitigating the Environmental Effects (1985), Global Resources and International Conflict:  Environmental Factors in Strategic Policy and Action (1986), Cultural Norms, War and the Environment (1988), Comprehensive Security for the Baltic:  an Environmental Approach (1989), and Environmental Hazards of War:  Releasing Dangerous Forces in an Industrialized World (1990) --- as well as authoring numerous UN reports, book chapters, and journal articles. This volume combines six of his pioneering contributions on the environmental consequences of warfare in Viet Nam and in Kuwait, on the environmental impact of nuclear war, and on legal constraints and military guidelines for protecting the environment in wartime. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice,$x2194-3125 ;$v1 606 $aWar$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aWar and society 615 0$aWar$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aWar and society. 676 $a341.6 700 $aWesting$b Arthur H$01062661 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910437948703321 996 $aArthur H. Westing$92538440 997 $aUNINA