Natural resource extraction, armed violence, and environmental degradation

Organization and Environment

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 417-445

  Downey, Liam ^a   Bonds, Eric ^a   Clark, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

ecological unequal exchange; environmental sociology; militarism; mining; violence

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MILITARY INTERVENTION; MINING; NATURAL RESOURCE; VIOLENCE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650765419     PISSN: 10860266     EISSN: 15527417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1086026610385903     Document Type: Article

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