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Scorched Earth

Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature

By: Emmanuel Kreike

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Scorched Earth

Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature

By: Emmanuel Kreike

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people’s livelihoods and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched earth, military inundations, and armies living off the land from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, arguing that the resulting deliberate destruction of the environment—"environcide"—constitutes total war and is a crime against humanity and nature. In this sweeping global history, Emmanuel Kreike shows how religious war in Europe transformed Holland into a desolate swamp where hunger and the black death ruled. He describes how Spanish conquistadores exploited the irrigation works and expansive agricultural terraces of the Aztecs and Incas, triggering a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions. Kreike demonstrates how environmental warfare has continued unabated into the modern era. His panoramic narrative takes readers from the Thirty Years' War to the wars of France's Sun King, and from the Dutch colonial wars in North America and Indonesia to the early twentieth century colonial conquest of southwestern Africa. Shedding light on the premodern origins and the lasting consequences of total war, Scorched Earth explains why ecocide and genocide are not separate phenomena, and why international law must recognize environmental warfare as a violation of human rights.

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Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature

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Environmental Infrastructure in African History

Examining the Myth of Natural Resource Management in Namibia

By: Emmanuel Kreike

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Environmental Infrastructure in African History

Examining the Myth of Natural Resource Management in Namibia

By: Emmanuel Kreike

Environmental Infrastructure in African History offers a new approach for analyzing and narrating environmental change. Environmental change conventionally is understood as occurring in a linear fashion, moving from a state of more nature to a state of less nature and more culture. In this model, non-Western and premodern societies live off natural resources, whereas more modern societies rely on artifact, or nature that is transformed and domesticated through science and technology into culture. In contrast, Emmanuel Kreike argues that both non-Western and premodern societies inhabit a dynamic middle ground between nature and culture. He asserts that humans- in collaboration with plants, animals, and other animate and inanimate forces - create environmental infrastructure that constantly is remade and reimagined in the face of ongoing processes of change.

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Cambridge University Press

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110700151X

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Environmental Infrastructure in African History

Examining the Myth of Natural Resource Management in Namibia

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Examining the Myth of Natural Resource Management in Namibia

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Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia

The Global Consequences of Local Contradictions

By: Emmanuel Kreike

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Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia

The Global Consequences of Local Contradictions

By: Emmanuel Kreike

Descriptions of the late 1800s landscape in the Ovambo floodplain in north-central Namibia closely match the area’s late 1900s appearance, suggesting that little change occurred between the pre-colonial baseline and the postcolonial outcome. Yet, paradoxically, colonial conquest, population pressure, biological invasions, new technology, and economic globalization caused both dramatic deforestation and reforestation in less than a century. The paradox stems from the fact that the prevailing global environmental models obscure and homogenize the process of environmental change: different and contradictory interpretations are dismissed as alternative readings or misreadings of the same process. Deforestation and Reforestation, however, argues that the paradox highlights the need to reframe environmental change as plural processes occurring along multiple trajectories that may be dissynchronized and asymmetrical.

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The Global Consequences of Local Contradictions

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Scorched Earth

Scorched Earth

Scorched Earth

Environmental Infrastructure in African History

Environmental Infrastructure in African History

Environmental Infrastructure in African History

Environmental Infrastructure in African History

Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia

Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia

Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia

Deforestation and Reforestation in Namibia

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