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Environmental violence in the earth system and the human niche

Marcantonio, Richard A., author

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\"The concept of environmental violence (EV) explains the harm that humanity is inflicting upon itself through our pollution emissions. This book argues that EV is present, active, and expanding at alarming rates in the contemporary human niche and in the Earth system. It explains how EV is produced and facilitated by the same inequalities that it creates and reinforces, and suggests that the causes can be attributed to a relatively small portion of the human population and to a fairly circumscribed set of behaviours. While the causes of EV are complex, the author makes this complexity manageable to ensure interventions are more readily discernible. The EV-model developed is both a theoretical concept and an analytical tool, substantiated with rigorous social and environmental scientific evidence, and designed with the intention to help disrupt the cycle of violence with effective policies and real change.\"-- Page 4 of cover.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Environmental degradation. / Environmental sociology. / Nature Effect of human beings on. / Human beings Effect of environment on. / Offenses against the environment. / Violence Environmental aspects.
• ISBN: 1009170791, 9781009170796

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GE140 .M265 2022	1	BOOK	GENERAL