Marianna Dudley
Author
Publisher
Continuum International Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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...