Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime Against Humanity and Nature

by Emmanuel Kreike

Book Overview

A global history of environmental warfare and the case for why it should be a crime

The environmental infrastructure that sustains human societies has been a target and instrument of war for centuries, resulting in famine and disease, displaced populations, and the devastation of people's livelihoods and ways of life. Scorched Earth traces the history of scorched earth, military inundations, and armies living off the land from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691137420
• ISBN13: 9780691137421
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 538 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.4"