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An Environmental History of the UK Defence Estate, 1945 to the Present Hardcover – 3 May 2012
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Marianna Dudley
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This book explores the environmental history of the British military through a comparative framework of five key sites in England and Wales. The military presence at these places, it is claimed, has protected them from more damaging land uses such as intensive agriculture, urban sprawl and industrial development. The book examines such claims and explores how and why the military has embraced nature conservation policies. The greening of the MOD and khaki conservation are critically examined in an historical context. The emergence of the training landscapes as protected spaces is contrasted with calls for greater access, and at times, public pressure for their release. The volume draws to attention the environmental impact of preparations for war, and brings sites of training to the fore alongside better known military landscapes like battlefields and conflict zones. Each chapter is based in a single site, giving prominence to local meanings and landscape character but allowing the overarching themes to connect throughout, tracing an environmental history of the UK Defence Estates that is firmly grounded in the British countryside.
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherContinuum
- Publication date3 May 2012
- Dimensions15.6 x 1.57 x 23.39 cm
- ISBN-101441192425
- ISBN-13978-1441192424
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'In this, the first comprehensive analysis of the UK s military training areas through an environmental history lens, Marianna Dudley provides a timely and informed account of the ways in which these areas have come to serve simultaneously as places for military preparations for war and as places for the conservation of the natural environment. Drawing on a range of empirical materials including documentary and oral sources, and first-hand observation, Dudley weaves a narrative through the individual stories of the largest training areas and spaces in southern England and Wales to provide an informed and highly readable account of military environmental history behind the frontline. This valuable contribution will be of direct interest to environmental historians, but will also appeal to geographers, planners and historians of the military as they seek to understand how military activities shape and affect wider activities, environments and landscapes' ----Professor Rachel Woodward, Newcastle University, UK
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Marianna Dudley is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol, UK. She is a member of the Landscape and Environment Research Network.
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- Publisher : Continuum (3 May 2012)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1441192425
- ISBN-13 : 978-1441192424
- Dimensions : 15.6 x 1.57 x 23.39 cm
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