Warfare Ecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Warfare Ecology write by Gary E. Machlis. This book was released on 2011-05-29. Warfare Ecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The purpose of this book is specific and ambitious: to outline the distinctive elements, scope, and usefulness of a new and emerging field of applied ecology named warfare ecology. Based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, the book provides both a theoretical overview of this new field and case studies that range from mercury contamination during World War I in Slovenia to the ecosystem impacts of the Palestinian occupation, and from the bombing of coral reefs of Vieques to biodiversity loss due to violent conflicts in Africa. Warfare Ecology also includes reprints of several classical papers that set the stage for the new synthesis described by the authors. Written for environmental scientists, military and humanitarian relief professionals, conservation managers, and graduate students in a wide range of fields, Warfare Ecology is a major step forward in understanding the relationship between war and ecological systems.
Sonic Warfare
Sonic Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sonic Warfare write by Steve Goodman. This book was released on 2012-08-17. Sonic Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe. Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in Waco by the FBI, sonic booms (or “sound bombs”) over the Gaza Strip, and high-frequency rat repellants used against teenagers in malls. At the same time, artists and musicians generate intense frequencies in the search for new aesthetic experiences and new ways of mobilizing bodies in rhythm. In Sonic Warfare, Steve Goodman explores these uses of acoustic force and how they affect populations. Traversing philosophy, science, fiction, aesthetics, and popular culture, he maps a (dis)continuum of vibrational force, encompassing police and military research into acoustic means of crowd control, the corporate deployment of sonic branding, and the intense sonic encounters of sound art and music culture. Goodman concludes with speculations on the not yet heard—the concept of unsound, which relates to both the peripheries of auditory perception and the unactualized nexus of rhythms and frequencies within audible bandwidths.
The Environment-Conflict Nexus in International Law
The Environment-Conflict Nexus in International Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Environment-Conflict Nexus in International Law write by Eliana Cusato. This book was released on 2021-09-16. The Environment-Conflict Nexus in International Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unpacks key assumptions about the 'environment', its relationship with violent conflict, and the justification for its protection underlying international law.
The Ecology of War in China
The Ecology of War in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ecology of War in China write by Micah S. Muscolino. This book was released on 2015. The Ecology of War in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict between China and Japan that raged during World War II. In a desperate attempt to block Japan's military advance, Chinese Nationalist armies under Chiang Kai-shek broke the Yellow River's dikes in Henan in June 1938, resulting in devastating floods that persisted until after the war's end. Greater catastrophe struck Henan in 1942-1943, when famine took some two million lives and displaced millions more. Focusing on these war-induced disasters and their aftermath, this book conceptualizes the ecology of war in terms of energy flows through and between militaries, societies, and environments. Ultimately, Micah Muscolino argues that efforts to procure and exploit nature's energy in various forms shaped the choices of generals, the fates of communities, and the trajectory of environmental change in North China.
War and Nature
War and Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War and Nature write by Edmund Russell. This book was released on 2001-02-12. War and Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 2001 book shows the intersection of chemical warfare and pest control in the twentieth century.
