Weapons, Waste, and Pollution
When conflict arises, the environment is often one of the many casualties. Weapons, waste, and pollution are some of the most severe environmental consequences of armed conflict, which pose serious threats to both society and the environment. The result is desertification, land degradation, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and contamination of water and air resources. Local pollution from toxic hazards, such as oil fires and industrial conflicts, can also be detrimental to public health.M&E is essential to mitigate these environmental risks and ensure a sustainable post-conflict environment. M&E plays a crucial role in assessing the impact of conflict-related environmental damage. Environmental peacebuilding utilizes M&E to identify and address long-term environmental vulnerabilities and risks.
There are 19 resources related to Weapons, Waste, and Pollution.
State of the Siverskyi Donets Basin and Related Risks Under Military Operations: Technical Report
2019
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Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
The report, available in English and Ukrainian, includes overview of working materials in the field of protection and use of water resources in the Siverskyi Donets…
Online Identification of Conflict Related Environmental Damage
2015
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Bellingcat
Wim Zwijnenburg
With the conflict in Syria soon to enter its fifth year, large parts of the country have been laid to waste by intense fighting, bombardment…
Biodiversity, peace and conflict: understandings the connections
2023
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SSRN
Lucy Rist, Cibele Queiroz, and Albert Norström
Trajectories of human conflict have direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem function. These occur across terrestrial, marine and freshwater systems via the well-established…
Protecting the Environment during Armed Conflict: From Principles to Implementation
2021
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Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)
Emma Hakala and Freek van der Vet
Conflict-related damage to the environment has become widespread and causes sustained harm to public health, ecosystems, and peacebuilding.
The International Law Commission (ILC) will finalize its…
Solving the Jigsaw of Conflict-Related Environmental Damage: Utilizing Open-Source Analysis to Improve Research into Environmental Health Risks
2020
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Journal of Public Health
Wim Zwijnenburg, David Hochhauser, Omar Dewachi, Richard Sullivan, and Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Investigation of the environmental impacts of armed conflict has been made easier in recent years with the development of new and improved methods for documenting…
Geocollaboration in Environmental Inspection Activities in the Environmental Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State – Brazil
2020
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Boletim do Observatório Ambiental Alberto Ribeiro Lamego
Eduardo Frederico Cabral de Oliveira, José Augusto Silva, José Francisco Oliveira Júnior, and Jader Lugon Junior
The cost of geotechnologies are becoming more accessible. The capacity to generate real-time maps with ubiquitous access and applications based on geocollaborative platforms developed for…
Environmental Decision-Making within a Recovering War Zone: The Republic of Iraq (chapter in "Global Case Studies of Collaboration and Transformation")
2019
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Taylor & Francis Group
Mohammed A. Kalkhan
Iraq faces numerous environmental problems including severe pollution, intertwined with a host of other issues, principally because of decades of war, international sanctions, and general…
The 2016 Al-Mishraq Sulphur Plant Fire: Source and Health Risk Area Estimation
2017
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Atmospheric Environment Journal
Oscar Björnham, Håkan Grahn, Pontus von Schoenberg, Birgitta Liljedahl, Annica Waleij, and Niklas Brännström
On October 20, 2016, Daesh (Islamic State) set fire to the sulphur production site Al-Mishraq as the battle of Mosul in northern Iraq became more…
(Brundtland Report) Our Common Future, Chapter 11: Peace, Security, Development, and the Environment
1987
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United Nations
World Commission on Environment and Development
1. Among the dangers facing the environment, the possibility of nuclear war, or military conflict of a lesser scale involving weapons of mass destruction, is…
A Polluting War: Risk, Experts, and the Politics of Monitoring Wartime Environmental Harm in Eastern Ukraine
2024
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Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
Freek van der Vet
War always harms the environment. As the fog of war produces unreliable data, it also obstructs our capacity to monitor those harms. While some call…
Examining the Role of WASH Services Within Peace- and Statebuilding Processes
2012
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Tearfund
Leni WIld and Nathaniel Mason
This synthesis report presents the findings of a one-year research project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and implemented by Tearfund and ODI,…
Oil and War: An Exchange
2021
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Security Studies
Jeff D. Colgan
Hye Ryeon Jang and Benjamin Smith argue in their article “Pax Petrolica? Rethinking the Oil–Interstate War Linkage” that, when reexamined, the historical data are “more supportive of petro-peace…
Five Years of Fighting in Eastern Ukraine: Environmental Issues Depicted in Infographics [Infographic]
2020
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Zoï Environmental Network
“Five Years of Fighting in Eastern Ukraine” is a set of infographics which demonstrate the dynamics and trends of environmental change since the onset of…
Protecting Groundwater
2014
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EcoPeace Middle East
EcoPeace Middle East
Groundwater is the world’s most important source of freshwater, constituting 97% of the Earth’s freshwater reserves. However, in the Mediterranean Region, groundwater quality along the…
Practical Guide: Mining and Communities
2016
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Communities First
Lien De Brouckere
Working in partnership with Kabinet Cisse (Guinea-based consultant) and more than a dozen authors, especially those affiliated with Insuco, Lien De Brouckere was the lead…
Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
2015
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Hydrological Sciences Journal
Ashok Swain
Water-management issues cut across all sectors of governance and have a critical bearing on many post-conflict challenges. The imperative of adequate water supply, and the…
Practical Guide: Mines and Communities (abridged version)
2015
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American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative
The Republic of Guinea holds one-third of the world’s bauxite reserves, significant deposits of gold, diamonds, and some of the world’s most prized iron ore…
Guide Pratique: Mines & Communautés (version abrégée)
2015
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American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative
La République de Guinée possède 30 % de la réserve mondiale de bauxite, d’importantes réserves d’or et de diamants, ainsi que de dépôts de minerai…
Guide Pratique: Mines & Communautés
2015
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American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative
La République de Guinée possède 30 % de la réserve mondiale de bauxite, d’importantes réserves d’or et de diamants, ainsi que de dépôts de minerai…