An Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate, 1945 to by Marianna Dudley
By Marianna Dudley
An Environmental background of the united kingdom Defence property, 1945 to the Present severely examines the sluggish âgreeningâ of the MoD because it built rules of army environmentalism. It contains the histories of the ghost-villages created through pressured evictions, and charts the increase and fall of anti-military protest routine. It depicts heated confrontations, mass trespasses, and calls for for public entry along conservation paintings and coaching actions, situating the human histories of those websites inside of their environmental historical past, and taking the reader at the back of the barbed twine within the first examine of its kind.
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