Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts pp 393-405 | Cite as
Environment and Security in Eastern Europe
This paper examines the links between environment and security in three East European countries—Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. It is based on the report of the Environment and Security Initiative and incorporates results from more recent research. The paper highlights the importance of recognizing the region's geopolitical positioning between the European Union and the Russian Federation, improving energy security without jeopardizing the environment, cleaning up obsolete military infrastructure, chemicals, and metallurgical stocks, addressing frozen conflicts, and strengthening cooperation over shared rivers and ecosystems.
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Belarus Moldova Ukraine energy dilemma Chernobyl legacy frozen conflictsPreview
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