War and geos: the environmental legacies of conflict

战争与地理：冲突的环境遗产

• 批准号: EP/X042642/1
• 负责人: Mark Griffiths
• 金额: $ 164.3万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX042642%2F1
• 关键词: War; geos; environmental; legacies; conflict

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.

战争和地球存在于一种双重破坏性的关系中。战争和地球存在于一种双重破坏性的关系中。现代武器的材料（例如，从地球上提取的弹药（铀、钨、合金金属）被作为弹药的关键部件运输和重新包装，然后在战争期间被重新放入地下，留在土壤和地下水中，对生态系统造成长期损害。这一开采、生产和部署周期的环境遗产目前尚未公开，而且规模巨大;整个地区和人口都面临着战争实质性造成的逐渐和延迟损害的威胁。这个项目旨在解决一个关键的研究挑战：了解战争和地球静止轨道之间的关系，在冲突的环境寓言。具体而言，调查将侧重于新先进武器的生产和残留物（例如，高密度惰性金属爆炸物、白色磷和贫化铀），影响生态系统和公众健康。它将开辟新天地，首次将不同学科（地理学、环境科学、公共卫生）的专业知识汇集在一个创新的研究项目中，对战争与地球静止轨道之间的关系进行丰富的分析。该项目的重点是加沙和伊拉克的实地地点以及武器制造的多地点生产链，其目标超出了以下最先进的范围：1）产生关于战争的时间性、空间性和主题的重要新知识; 2）推进对前沿概念的批判性理解，“战争的地理时空”（参见Griffiths 2021）和3）影响公共卫生，军国主义和环境正义领域的重大现实世界和紧迫挑战。这个创新和高风险的项目旨在获得高收益，将通过这里详细介绍的雄心勃勃但可行的研究方案来实施。