TY - BOOK ID - 80815670 TI - An environmental history of the UK defence estate, 1945 to the present PY - 2012 SN - 9781441113573 1441113576 128057755X 9781280577550 9781441120250 1441120254 9781441192424 9781472533739 9781474211222 1474211224 1441192425 9781441192424 1472533739 9781472533739 9786613607294 6613607290 PB - London ; New York : Continuum, DB - UniCat KW - Armed Forces KW - Military art and science KW - Environmental aspects. KW - Environmental aspects KW - Great Britain. KW - Defence Estate Organisation (Works) KW - MOD Defence Estate Organisation KW - Great Britain KW - Armed forces KW - Land use KW - Land use. KW - Military art and science. KW - Military bases KW - Military readiness KW - Military readiness. KW - Armaments KW - Defense readiness KW - Defenses, National KW - Military preparedness KW - National defenses KW - Preparedness (Military science) KW - Readiness (Military science) KW - Military policy KW - Arms control KW - Arms race KW - Disarmament KW - Manpower KW - Army posts KW - Bases, Military KW - Military facilities KW - Military installations KW - Military posts KW - Military stations KW - Posts, Military KW - Stations, Military KW - Fighting KW - Military power KW - Military science KW - Warfare KW - Warfare, Primitive KW - Naval art and science KW - War KW - Land KW - Land utilization KW - Use of land KW - Utilization of land KW - Economics KW - Land cover KW - Landscape assessment KW - NIMBY syndrome UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80815670 AB - "This book brings to attention the history of places that have traditionally remained under-the-radar in discussions of war and the environment, through site-based studies of five training areas in southwest England and Wales: Salisbury Plain, Lulworth, Dartmoor, Sennybridge and Castlemartin. At these sites, the big events of the twentieth century are written into landscapes that absorb their impact and reflect change in intriguing ways. Here, however, environment is more than a canvas on which historical forces play out; it has an agency of its own, as the depiction of the surprising nature and robust habitats of the training areas recognises. An Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate, 1945 to the Present critically examines the gradual 'greening' of the MoD as it developed policies of military environmentalism. It includes the histories of the ghost-villages created by forced evictions, and charts the rise and fall of anti-military protest movements. It depicts heated confrontations, mass trespasses, and demands for public access alongside conservation work and training activities, situating the human histories of these sites within their environmental history, and taking the reader behind the barbed wire in the first study of its kind."--Bloomsbury Publishing. ER -