War and geos: the environmental legacies of conflict

战争和地球(地球)存在着一种双重破坏性的关系。战争和地球(地球)存在着双重破坏性的关系。现代武器的材料(如铀、钨、合金金属)从地球上开采出来，运往地球，重新包装成弹药的关键部件，然后在战争期间重新装入地下，留在土壤和地下水中，对生态系统造成长期破坏。这一开采、生产和部署周期的环境遗产目前尚未披露，而且规模巨大；整个地区和人民都生活在战争重要性带来的逐渐和延缓损害的威胁中。该项目旨在解决一个关键的研究挑战：在冲突的指控中理解战争和地球系统之间的关系。具体而言，调查的重点将是影响生态系统和公众健康的新型先进武器(如致密惰性金属弹药、白磷和贫铀)的生产和残留量。它将开辟新的天地，首次将不同学科(地理、环境科学、公共卫生)的专业知识汇聚在一起，形成一个创新的研究方案，对战争和地球系统之间的关系进行丰富的分析。该项目以加沙和伊拉克的实地基地以及武器制造的多地点生产链为重点，旨在超越以下最先进的兴趣：1)就战争的时间性、空间性和主题产生关键的新知识；2)促进对尖端概念--“战争的地理学时空”(见Griffiths 2021)的批判性理解；3)在公共卫生、军事主义和环境正义领域产生重大的现实和紧迫的挑战。为获得高收益而设计的这一创新和高风险项目将通过雄心勃勃但可行的研究计划实施，详见下文。

War and the geos (Earth) exist in a doubly destructive relationship. The War and the geos (Earth) exist in a doubly destructive relationship. The materials for contemporary weapons (e.g., uranium, tungsten, alloyed metals) are extracted from the Earth to be shipped and repackaged as key components of munitions that are then re-introduced into the ground during warfare, where they remain in soils and groundwater, causing long-term damage to ecological systems. The environmental legacies of this cycle of extraction, production and deployment are currently undisclosed and vast in scale; entire regions and populations live with the threat of gradual and deferred harm from the materiality of war. This project aims to address a key research challenge: to understand the relationship between war and geos in the environmentallegacies of conflict. Specifically, inquiry will focus on the production and residues of newly advanced weapons (e.g., Dense Inert MetalExplosive (DIME), white phosphorus and depleted uranium) that affect ecological systems and public health. It will break new groundas the first of its kind to bring together expertise from different disciplines (geography, environmental science, public health) in aninnovative programme of study that will develop rich analyses of the relationship between war and geos. Focusing on field sites inGaza and Iraq and on the multi-sited production chains of weapon manufacturing, the project aims beyond the state-of-the-art interms of 1) producing crucial new knowledge on the temporalities, spatialities and subjects of war; 2) advancing critical understandings of a cutting-edge concept, the 'geontological time-spaces of war' (see Griffiths 2021) and 3) impacting a significant real-world and urgent challenge in the areas of public health, militarism and environmental justice. Designed for high gains, this innovative and high-risk project will be implemented via the ambitious but feasible programme of study detailed here.