Warfare, Conflict, and Human Environments (7)

Question 1

Define warfare ecology.

Answer 1

The environmental impact of war, not limited to the active phase of hostilities, but including the manufacture and testing of weapons and the environmental aftermath of war

Question 2

What was the most extreme use of herbicides in war?

Answer 2

Agent Orange in Vietnam
The South Vietnamese sprayed herbicides obtained from the USA gov to kill the plants and expose enemy troops, killing half of South Vietnam’s coastal mangrove forests.

Question 3

What role do anthropologists play in warfare ecology?

Answer 3

Study the grassroots movements that arise out of situations of war or violence

Question 4

Townsend describes environmental damage from warfare. What other relationships are there between the environment and violence?

Answer 4

War that arises out of environmental issues, such as famine and the failure of food crops urging civil unrest