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Exploring Environmental Violence

Perspectives, Experience, Expression, and Engagement

Agustín Fuentes editor John Paul Lederach editor Richard A Marcantonio editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:9th May '24

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This book offers a range of scholarly and cultural perspectives on environmental violence from around the world.

This book offers a range of scholarly approaches to environmental violence, including law, social and environmental science, engineering, as well as from the arts and humanities. Presenting various cultural perspectives from around the world, it is indispensable reading for researchers and policymakers in environmental policy and peacebuilding.The contributors to this book represent a wide breadth of scholarly approaches, including law, social and environmental science, engineering, as well as from the arts and humanities. The chapters explore what environmental violence is and does, and the variety of ways in which it affects different communities. The authors draw on empirical data from around the globe, including Ukraine, French Polynesia, Latin America, and the Arctic. The variety of responses to environmental violence by different communities, whether through active resistance or the creative arts, are also discussed, providing the foundation on which to build alternatives to the potentially damaging trajectory on which humans currently find themselves. This book is indispensable for researchers and policymakers in environmental policy and peacebuilding. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

ISBN: 9781009417143

Dimensions: 251mm x 175mm x 26mm

Weight: 860g

402 pages