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The broad view of warfare ecology: response to Marler

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2014

THOR HANSON  and
GARY E. MACHLIS
THOR HANSON*
Affiliation:
351 False Bay Drive, Friday Harbor, WA 98250, USA
GARY E. MACHLIS
Affiliation:
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
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*Correspondence: Dr Thor Hanson e-mail: [email protected]
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Summary

A recent Comment article suggested replacing the established term warfare ecology with the name ‘military ecology’. This emerging and important sub-discipline requires an accurate, inclusive, and descriptive name. Maintaining the broad term warfare ecology reaches beyond the military to beyond to involve a much wider range of processes and stakeholders, including non-state parties and insurgencies, contractors, civilians, humanitarian and relief organizations, and reconstruction/restoration efforts. It has been adopted by practitioners from a similarly diverse range of disciplines, and used for important research that would not be included under a field limited to military studies.

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Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , September 2014 , pp. 241
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2014 

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