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Tales from a wounded desert - Laurie Taylor hears about a remarkable campaign for environmental justice in the US. Also, the British army as the custodian of a unique landscape.

Laurie Taylor talks to Vron Ware, Visiting Professor at the Gender Institute of the LSE, about the reality of living next to a huge army community in the UK. Talking to both sides of the divide, she explores the impact of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, an area of British countryside which is home to rare plants and wildlife. Is military occupation a positive asset in terms of conservation and ecology? Also, Sunaura Taylor, Assistant Professor in the Division of Society and Environment at UC Berkeley, describes environmental damage below the ground in Tucson Arizona and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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Sun 9 Mar 2025 06:05

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Guests and further reading

-听 - Visiting Professor at the Gender Institute of the听

England's military heartland: Preparing for war on Salisbury Plain: (co-authored with Antonia Lucia Dawes, Mitra Pariyar and Alice Cree) Manchester University Press


-听 - Assistant Professor in the Division of Society and Environment and the director of the Disabled Ecologies Lab.听UC Berkeley

Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert (University of California Press)

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