Environmental Consequences of War and Aftermath

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

   PDF

2. Background to Selected Environmental and Human Health Effects of Chemical Warfare Agents

   • John Hart

   Pages 1-19

3. Prevention of War and Its Environmental Consequences

   • Victor W. Sidel, Barry S. Levy, Jonathan E. Slutzman

   Pages 22-39

4. Remote Sensing: Fundamentals, Types and Monitoring Applications of Environmental Consequences of War

   • Dhari Al Ajmi, Saif ud din

   Pages 41-124

5. War-Induced Soil Degradation, Depletion, and Destruction (The Case of Ground Fortifications in the Terrestrial Environment of Kuwait)

   • R. Misak, D. Al-Ajmi, A. Al-Enezi

   Pages 125-139

6. Critical Assessment of the Environmental Consequences of the Invasion of Kuwait, the Gulf War, and the Aftermath

   • Samira A.S. Omar, N. R. Bhat, Adel Asem

   Pages 141-170

7. Atmospheric Transport and Deposition of Persistent Organic Pollutants Under Warfare Conditions

   • Zorka Vukmirović, Miroslava Unkašević, Ivana Tošic

   Pages 171-208

8. Environmental and Health Impact Assessment of Ammunition Containing Transuranic Elements

   • Zora S. žunić, Nada R. Miljević

   Pages 209-251

9. Ecological Impact on the Danube After NATO Air Strikes

   • Vesna Martinovic-Vitanovic, Vladimir Kalafatic

   Pages 253-282

10. Speciation of Heavy Metals in Geological Matter of the Serbian National Parks, Protected Areas and Cities Within the Danube River Basin After the War Conflict in 1999

    • Aleksandar Popovic, Dragana Djordjevic, Dubravka Relic, Zorka Vukmirovic, Aleksandra Mihajlidi-Zelic, Predrag Polic

    Pages 283-319

11. Back Matter

    Pages 321-325

    PDF

and used in munitions. Rather the requirements for the agent’s military effects took precedence. In addition, the interaction among the political, technical, and legal challenges connected with the known or possible risks posed by CW agents is complex and sometimes not well understood. This is usually because technical considerations, when acted on, are almost invariably informed by political ones, such as various legal requirements. The book contains nine chapters covering different aspects of the research on environmental consequences of war and its aftermath and covers in one additional chapter more general issues such as prevention of war and its environmental c- sequences, the legal, political, and technical background to selected environmental and human health effects of CW agents, and the atmospheric transport and depo- tion of persistent organic pollutants under warfare conditions to more specific ones related to two main tragic examples: the war in the Balkans and the Gulf War. Aspects of the war in the Balkans cover contamination by heavy metals in Serbian national parks, the impact of NATO strikes on the Danube river basin, and the problems associated with transuranium elements. The Gulf War in Kuwait covers other problems related to the impact of oil contamination, the impact on grou- water resources, and the soil damage of ground fortifications among other envir- mental and health problems.

• Ammunition
• Aquatic Organisms
• Chemical Warfare (CW)
• Danube
• Environmental Consequences of War
• Gulf War
• Kuwait
• Persistent Organic Pollutants
• Remote Sensing
• Sediment
• Transuranic Elements
• War Induced Soil Degradation
• Water Quality
• atmosphere
• environment

• Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA

  Tarek A. Kassim

• Department of Environmental Chemistry, IDAEA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

  Damià Barceló

• Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Parc Científic i Tecnològic de la Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain

  Damià Barceló

Policies and ethics