Proving grounds : militarized landscapes, weapons testing, and the environmental impact of U.S. bases / / editor, Edwin A. Martini ; contributors, Yooil Bae [et al.]
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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.]
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| Pubblicazione: | Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 333 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 355.70286 |
| Soggetto topico: | Military bases - United States - Environmental aspects |
| Military bases, American - Environmental aspects | |
| Nuclear weapons - Testing - Environmental aspects | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Military policy Environmental aspects |
| Persona (resp. second.): | MartiniEdwin A. <1975-> |
| BaeYooil <1972-> | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Proving grounds |
| ISBN: | 0-295-80594-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828594603321 |
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