)&2$&3&./-.4'5.6-$".7&./18')-39'-.'/:&'*1.03%12&3'";'(!'<-8-/1$-=1/-". Hsuan Hsu This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape. Text by Hsuan Hsu (2014) under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license. This refers only to the text and does not include any image rights; images are licensed individually. For copyright information on the above images, please click here. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/risk-and-militarization/copyright-information >"?'/"'%-/&+' Hsu, Hsuan. “Representing environmental risk in the landscapes of US militarization.” Environment & Society Portal, !"#$%&'()*+","$"-./ 2014, no. 1. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6058. 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