Arthur H. Westing: Pioneer on the Environmental Impact of War

by Arthur H. Westing

Since the 1960s the environment has become an issue of increasing public concern in North America and elsewhere. Triggered by the Second Indochina War (Vietnam Conflict) of 1961-1975, and further encouraged by the International Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972, the environmental impact of war emerged and grew as a topic of research in the natural and the social sciences. And in the late 1980s this led additionally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642313213
• ISBN13: 9783642313219
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"