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T1 Conflict Pollution and the Toxic Remnants of War: A Global Problem that receives too little attention - Perspectives Issue No 24
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A2 Weir, Doug
K1 toxic pollution
K1 material remnants of war
K1 disaster risk
K1 conflict
K1 ecosystem management
YR 2017
FD 2017-04
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/20298
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/20298
NO Severe pollution incidents have provided some of the most visually arresting images of recent armed conflicts. Oil fires and spills, bomb – damaged and looted industrial facilities, abandoned military material and munitions, rubble and demolition waste – all are associated with contemporary conflicts, and all can threaten ecosystems and human health. But these obvious, and often serious, sources of pollution rarely tell the whole story
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026