Environmental violence in the earth system and the human niche
Richard A. Marcantonio.
Bok Engelsk 2022
| Omfang | 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Opplysninger | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jul 2022).. - Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Approaching Environmental Violence -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Global Patterns of Environmental Change -- 1.1.2 Locating Our Current Moment in Geologic and Human History -- 1.1.3 Net Assessment -- 1.2 Theoretical Frameworks and Underpinnings of Environmental Violence -- 1.2.1 An Anthropological Ecosystems Approach -- 1.2.2 Systems Thinking -- 1.2.3 Human Niche Construction -- 1.3 A Brief Example: Fossil Fuels -- 1.4 Overview of the Rest of the Book -- 2 Environmental Violence Defined -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Defining Environmental Violence -- 2.3 Common Concepts of Violence -- 2.3.1 The Violence Triad -- 2.3.2 Subconcepts of Violence -- 2.3.3 Risk of Violence -- 2.4 Environmental Violence: A Concept and a Hazard -- 2.4.1 Structural and Cultural Violence as They Play into Environmental Violence -- 2.4.2 Environmental Violence: Its Production and as a Vector of Violence -- 2.4.3 Vulnerability -- 2.4.4 Structural and Cultural Violence and Vulnerability -- 2.4.5 Harm, Power Differentials, and Environmental Violence -- 2.4.6 Scale, Time, and Environmental Violence -- 2.5 Existing Concepts of Violence That Are Connected to the Environment -- 2.5.1 Silent Violence -- 2.5.2 Violent Environments -- 2.5.3 Slow Violence -- 2.5.4 Environmental Justice -- 2.6 Differentiating the Ecologically Interconnected Concepts of Violence -- 2.7 The Contribution of Environmental Violence in Sum -- 3 Environmental Violence across the Earth System and the Human Niche -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Sources of Environmental Violence -- 3.2.1 Point Sources versus Nonpoint Sources of Environmental Violence -- 3.3 Environmental Violence in Air, Land, and Water -- 3.3.1 Sources -- 3.3.2 Contributions -- 3.3.3 Pathways -- 3.3.4 Impacts.. - 3.3.5 In Sum: Environmental Violence in Air, Land, and Water -- 3.4 Environmental Violence in Time -- 3.4.1 Environmental Violence Accumulation over Time -- 3.4.2 Environmental Violence Intrusions in Real Time -- 3.4.3 Environmental Violence Lag Effect -- 3.4.4 In Sum: Environmental Violence and Time -- 3.5 Locations, Intersections, Politics, and Measurements of Environmental Violence -- 3.5.1 Correlations between Toxic and Nontoxic Forms of Environmental Violence -- 3.5.2 The Politics of Environmental Violence -- 3.6 Summary -- 4 The Flow of Environmental Violence on the Pampana River, Sierra Leone -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 A Short Recent History -- 4.1.2 Local Geographies of Environmental Violence -- 4.1.2.1 The Top of the Watershed: Lake Sonfon -- 4.1.2.2 The End of the River: The Pampana in Tonkolili -- 4.2 Tracking Environmental Violence: Data Collection and Analysis -- 4.2.1 Ethnographic Data Collection and Analysis -- 4.2.2 Environmental Quality Analysis and Results -- 4.2.2.1 Environmental Sampling Process -- 4.2.2.2 Fish Analysis and Results -- 4.2.2.3 Soil Analysis and Results -- 4.2.2.4 Additional Environmental Analyses and Results -- 4.3 The Environmental Violence Model Applied -- 4.3.1 Structural and Cultural Violence: Global to Local Patterns -- 4.3.2 Environmental Violence: Production and Presence -- 4.3.3 Environmental Violence: The Hazard Measured -- 4.3.3.1 Land -- 4.3.3.2 Silt -- 4.3.3.3 Fish -- 4.3.3.4 Soil -- 4.3.3.5 Seasonal Shifts in Environmental Violence -- 4.3.3.6 Time -- 4.3.4 Vulnerability -- 4.3.5 Harms and Power Differentials Produced -- 4.4 Concluding Thoughts -- 5 Paradise in Peril: Environmental Violence in Everyday Island Life -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Insider Perspectives on EV-Exacerbated Extreme Weather Events -- 5.2.1 Vignette 1: Hurricane Lane on the Big Island, Hawaii.. - 5.2.2 Vignette 2: Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico -- 5.2.3 Vignette 3: Hurricane Dorian on Abaco Island, The Bahamas -- 5.2.4 The Vignettes and the Rest of the Chapter -- 5.3 Paradises Imperiled -- 5.3.1 Three Intertwined Cases -- 5.3.1.1 Hurricane Lane -- 5.3.1.2 Hurricane Maria -- 5.3.1.3 Hurricane Dorian -- 5.4 The Environmental Violence Model Applied -- 5.4.1 Structural and Cultural Violence: Global to Local Patterns -- 5.4.2 Environmental Violence: Island and Coastal Hazards -- 5.4.3 Vulnerability -- 5.4.4 Human Harm and Power Differentials -- 5.5 Concluding Thoughts -- 6 Reflections, Findings, and Future Applications of the Environmental Violence Framework -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Applying the Framework: Reflecting on and Continuing the Work -- 6.3 Junctures of Environmental Violence: Findings from the Environmental Violence Framework -- 7 Ethics, Policy, and Trajectories for Environmental Violence -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Environmental Ethics -- 7.2.1 Preservation Ethic -- 7.2.2 Conservation Ethic -- 7.2.3 Land Ethic -- 7.2.4 A New Ethic? -- 7.3 Potential Policy Pathways Forward: Approaches, Preferences, and Interventions for Reducing Environmental Violence -- 7.4 Environmental Violence and the Human Niche -- Notes -- 1 Approaching Environmental Violence -- 2 Environmental Violence Defined -- 3 Environmental Violence across the Earth -- 4 The Flow of Environmental Violence on the Pampana River, Sierra Leone -- 5 Paradise in Peril: Environmental Violence in Everyday Island Life -- 6 Reflections, Findings, and Future Applications of the Environmental Violence Framework -- 7 Ethics, Policy, and Trajectories for Environmental Violence -- References -- Index.. - 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.
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| ISBN | 1-009-17080-5. - 1-009-18656-6
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