The Conflict and Environment Academic Network (CEAN) is a community for academics and researchers engaged in the environmental monitoring and assessment of armed conflicts.

The network aims to catalyse and strengthen the growth of monitoring environmental change in conflict settings as a new discipline by:

  • Creating a space to share research, experiences, ideas and data;
  • Acting as a launch pad for network-building, new research directions and projects;
  • Using our collective works to advocate for the environment in conflict, pushing it up the policy and research agendas.

Monitoring of the environment encompasses diverse sub-disciplines and we are open to everything from air quality to zoology. Armed conflicts at all scales generate immediate as well as reverberating consequences for the environment, and our interests extend from near real-time monitoring, to geographically or temporally disparate outcomes and trends.

CEAN is open to all engaged in research, though primarily at those in or facing academia. We particularly welcome members from conflict-affected areas and/or under represented communities, as well as early career researchers. Membership is free and if you would like to join, please complete this form.

We hold quarterly online meetings and provide a weekly email digest. We also have a group on LinkedIn. CEAN was launched in December 2023 and is currently hosted by CEOBS, a UK research charity. CEAN is currently unfunded and we welcome enquiries from potential funders or donors.

For all enquiries eoghan[at]ceobs.org

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Current special issues in scope of the network:

‘Land Cover and Land Use Change in Conflicted Societies‘, Science of Remote Sensing, deadline 31 May 2024
‘Legacy of Warfare on the World’s Forests‘, Trees, Forests and People, deadline 30 June 2024

 

We maintain a curated list of publications from the past 12 months which are within the scope of CEAN.

Want to add your paper or spot anything missing? Get in touch with eoghan[at]ceobs.org

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Negash, E. et al. (2023) ‘Remote sensing reveals how armed conflict regressed woody vegetation cover and ecosystem restoration efforts in Tigray (Ethiopia)’, Science of Remote Sensing. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2023.100108.
Dando, B.D.E. et al. (2023) ‘Identifying attacks in the Russia–Ukraine conflict using seismic array data’, Nature. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06416-7.
Duncan, E.C. et al. (2023) ‘Detection and mapping of artillery craters with very high spatial resolution satellite imagery and deep learning’, Science of Remote Sensing. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2023.100092.
Sticher, V., Wegner, J.D. and Pfeifle, B. (2023) ‘Toward the remote monitoring of armed conflicts’, PNAS Nexus. Edited by E. Kimbrough. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad181.
Murillo-Sandoval, P.J. et al. (2023) ‘The post-conflict expansion of coca farming and illicit cattle ranching in Colombia’, Scientific Reports. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28918-0.

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Almashat, S. and McDiarmid, M. (2023) ‘Toxic chemical exposures among civilians in armed conflicts: the need for research equity, justice, and accountability’, Inhalation Toxicology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/08958378.2023.2286325.
Gosnell, K.J. et al. (2023) ‘World war munitions as a source of mercury in the southwest Baltic Sea’, Chemosphere. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140522.
Jiadan, D. et al. (2023) ‘Spatio-temporal variations of aerosol optical depth over Ukraine under the Russia-Ukraine war’, Atmospheric Environment. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.120114.
Negash, E. et al. (2023) ‘Remote sensing reveals how armed conflict regressed woody vegetation cover and ecosystem restoration efforts in Tigray (Ethiopia)’, Science of Remote Sensing. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2023.100108.
Solokha, M. et al. (2023) ‘Russian-Ukrainian war impacts on the environment. Evidence from the field on soil properties and remote sensing’, Science of The Total Environment. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166122.
Zwijnenburg, W. and Ballinger, O. (2023) ‘Leveraging emerging technologies to enable environmental monitoring and accountability in conflict zones’, International Review of the Red Cross. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1816383123000383.
Shumilo, L. et al. (2023) ‘Conservation policies and management in the Ukrainian Emerald Network have maintained reforestation rate despite the war’, Communications Earth & Environment. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01099-4.
Sanderson, H. et al. (2023) ‘Environmental impact of the explosion of the Nord Stream pipelines’, Scientific Reports. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-47290-7.
Hishe, S. et al. (2023) ‘The impacts of armed conflict on vegetation cover degradation in Tigray, northern Ethiopia’, International Soil and Water Conservation Research. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswcr.2023.11.003.
Mhanna, S. et al. (2023) ‘Using machine learning and remote sensing to track land use/land cover changes due to armed conflict’, Science of The Total Environment. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165600.
Phan, A. and Fukui, H. (2023) ‘Quantifying the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and the armed conflict with Russia on Sentinel 5P TROPOMI NO 2 changes in Ukraine’, Big Earth Data. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2023.2265105.
Malarvizhi, A.S. et al. (2023) ‘The spatial dynamics of Ukraine air quality impacted by the war and pandemic’, International Journal of Digital Earth. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2023.2239762.
Beattie, M. et al. (2023) ‘Even after armed conflict, the environmental quality of Indigenous Peoples’ lands in biodiversity hotspots surpasses that of non-Indigenous lands’, Biological Conservation. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110288.
Dando, B.D.E. et al. (2023) ‘Identifying attacks in the Russia–Ukraine conflict using seismic array data’, Nature. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06416-7.
Bonchkovskyi, O.S. et al. (2023) ‘Remote sensing as a key tool for assessing war-induced damage to soil cover in Ukraine (the case study of Kyinska territorial hromada)’, Journal of Geology, Geography and Geoecology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.15421/112342.
Balashevska, Y. et al. (2023) ‘Preliminary assessment of the radiological consequences of the hostile military occupation of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone’, Journal of Radiological Protection. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6498/acf8d0.
Foong, A., Pradhan, P. and Frör, O. (2023) ‘Supply chain disruptions would increase agricultural greenhouse gas emissions’, Regional Environmental Change. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02095-2.
Affek, A.N. et al. (2023) ‘Pockets of persistence of agricultural land use during the socioeconomic shock of forced post-WWII displacements in the Carpathians’, Land Use Policy. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106678.
Meng, X. et al. (2023) ‘Abrupt exacerbation in air quality over Europe after the outbreak of Russia-Ukraine war’, Environment International. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108120.
Daiyoub, A. et al. (2023) ‘War and Deforestation: Using Remote Sensing and Machine Learning to Identify the War-Induced Deforestation in Syria 2010–2019’, Land. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/land12081509.
Dinc, P. and Eklund, L. (2023) ‘Syrian farmers in the midst of drought and conflict: the causes, patterns, and aftermath of land abandonment and migration’, Climate and Development. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2223600.
Alawadhi, A., Eliopoulos, C. and Bezombes, F. (2023) ‘The detection of clandestine graves in an arid environment using thermal imaging deployed from an unmanned aerial vehicle’, Journal of Forensic Sciences. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.15280.
Pai, P.-L. (2023) ‘Where military and fluvial geographies disastrously conjoined: The Huayuankou flood of 1938–1947 during the Sino-Japanese war’, Journal of Historical Geography. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2023.06.004.
Aldakhil, M. et al. (2023) ‘A primary evaluation of Syrian forest damage since 2011: a case study of Alhamam and Alboz forest sites’, iForest – Biogeosciences and Forestry. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor4032-016.
Stukalyuk, S. and Kozyr, M. (2023) ‘The impact of urban warfare on the structure of ant assemblages on trees (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)’.
Wellington, M., Kuhnert, P. and Lawes, R. (2023) ‘Rapid monitoring of cropland primary productivity and shipping activity in Ukraine’, PLOS ONE. Edited by M.S.G. Adnan. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286637.
Baselt, I. et al. (2023) ‘Geologically-Driven Migration of Landmines and Explosive Remnants of War—A Feature Focusing on the Western Balkans’, Geosciences. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13060178.
Huang, Q. et al. (2023) ‘Monitoring Urban Change in Conflict from the Perspective of Optical and SAR Satellites: The Case of Mariupol, a City in the Conflict between RUS and UKR’, Remote Sensing. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15123096.
Fransen, S. et al. (2023) ‘Refugee settlements are highly exposed to extreme weather conditions’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206189120.
Waga, J.M., Fajer, M. and Szypuła, B. (2023) ‘Current and potential landscape functions of areas with the remnants of World War II bombing in the Koźle Basin, southern Poland’, Environmental & Socio-economic Studies. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2478/environ-2023-0009.
Ayri, I. et al. (2023) ‘The effect of military conflict zone in the Middle East on atmospheric persistent organic pollutant contamination in its north’, Science of The Total Environment. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162966.
Duncan, E.C. et al. (2023) ‘Detection and mapping of artillery craters with very high spatial resolution satellite imagery and deep learning’, Science of Remote Sensing. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2023.100092.
Restrepo-Santamaria, D. et al. (2023) ‘Bio Anorí, the biological expedition that documented fish diversity after the post-conflict in Antioquia, Colombia’, Global Ecology and Conservation. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02445.
Von Uexkull, N., Loy, A. and d’Errico, M. (2023) ‘Climate, flood, and attitudes toward violence: micro-level evidence from Karamoja, Uganda’, Regional Environmental Change. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02054-x.
Sticher, V., Wegner, J.D. and Pfeifle, B. (2023) ‘Toward the remote monitoring of armed conflicts’, PNAS Nexus. Edited by E. Kimbrough. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad181.
Gan, R.K. et al. (2023) ‘Novel Google Maps and Google Earth application for chemical industry disaster risk assessment during complex emergencies in Eastern Ukraine’, Scientific Reports. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31848-6.
Antipov, S.V. and Tananaev, I.G. (2023) ‘Radioecological Problems of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation: Reasons for Origin, Current status, Prospects’, Radiochemistry. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1066362223020029.
Rashwani, A. et al. (2023) ‘Rebuilding Syria from the Rubble: Recycled Concrete Aggregate from War-Destroyed Buildings’, Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0004654.
Turos, O.I. et al. (2023) ‘ASSESSMENT OF AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION BY PARTICULATE MATTER (PM10, PM2.5) AND RISK FOR HUMAN HEALTH CAUSED BY WAR ACTIONS’, Wiadomości Lekarskie. Available at: https://doi.org/10.36740/WLek202304106.
Zhang, C. et al. (2023) ‘Satellite spectroscopy reveals the atmospheric consequences of the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war’, Science of The Total Environment. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161759.
Shumilova, O. et al. (2023) ‘Impact of the Russia–Ukraine armed conflict on water resources and water infrastructure’, Nature Sustainability. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01068-x.
Den Otter, J.H. et al. (2023) ‘Release of Ammunition-Related Compounds from a Dutch Marine Dump Site’, Toxics. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics11030238.
Gleick, P.H. and Shimabuku, M. (2023) ‘Water-related conflicts: definitions, data, and trends from the water conflict chronology’, Environmental Research Letters. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acbb8f.
Agudelo-Hz, W.-J., Castillo-Barrera, N.-C. and Uriel, M.-G. (2023) ‘Scenarios of land use and land cover change in the Colombian Amazon to evaluate alternative post-conflict pathways’, Scientific Reports. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29243-2.
Tabor, R. et al. (2023) ‘Disruption to water supply and waterborne communicable diseases in northeast Syria: a spatiotemporal analysis’, Conflict and Health. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-023-00502-3.
Murillo-Sandoval, P.J. et al. (2023) ‘The post-conflict expansion of coca farming and illicit cattle ranching in Colombia’, Scientific Reports. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28918-0.
Deininger, K. et al. (2023) ‘Quantifying war-induced crop losses in Ukraine in near real time to strengthen local and global food security’, Food Policy. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102418.
Legrand, M. et al. (2023) ‘Alpine-ice record of bismuth pollution implies a major role of military use during World War II’, Scientific Reports. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28319-3.
Zhang, Z. et al. (2023) ‘The impact of the armed conflict in Afghanistan on vegetation dynamics’, Science of The Total Environment. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159138.
Mehrabi, M., Scaioni, M. and Previtali, M. (2023) ‘Forecasting Air Quality in Kiev During 2022 Military Conflict Using Sentinel 5P and Optimized Machine Learning’, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2023.3292006.
Shelestov, A. et al. (2023) ‘War Damage Detection Based on Satellite Data’. Available at: https://doi.org/10.25673/101924.
Yu, Y. et al. (2023) ‘Satellite Remotely Sensed Nighttime Lights Reveal Spatiotemporal Dynamics of the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict’, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2023.3290559.

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