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ERL特刊征稿|聚焦武装冲突的初期和持久环境后果

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特刊详情

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Jamon Van Den Hoek，美国俄勒冈州立大学
Eoghan Darbyshire，英国冲突与环境观察（CEOBS）
Pinar Dinc，瑞典隆德大学
Iryna Dronova，美国加利福尼亚大学
Lina Eklund，瑞典隆德大学
Emnet Negash，美国俄勒冈州立大学
Alexander V. Prishchepov，丹麦哥本哈根大学
Corey Scher，美国俄勒冈州立大学
Juliane Schillinger，荷兰红十字红新月气候中心
He Yin，美国肯特州立大学

主题范围

Recent years have seen a sharp rise in armed conflicts worldwide with some estimates pointing to a roughly 25% increase in conflict events each year since 2020, alongside a growing population directly affected by violence. Here, we use ’armed conflict’ to refer to situations in which organized groups, including governments, use weapons against one another. Though widespread, the environmental toll of armed conflict remains poorly understood in part because the impacts of armed conflict on ecological, human-environment, and climatic processes may manifest in different ways at different times. Examples such as burned agricultural fields in eastern Ukraine, damage to urban and peri-urban areas in the Gaza Strip, and cleared woodlands in Tigray may be evident almost immediately through first-hand accounts and detectable in satellite images collected thereafter.

But what of the long-term impacts on soil health, air quality, and carbon emissions, or changes in land and resource management decisions in response to armed conflict? These indirect environmental consequences are far more difficult to measure and attribute since they manifest over longer timespans, farther away from the conflict, and may result from a complex interplay of conflict dynamics, governance shifts, and other stressors such as climate variability. Nonetheless, their inclusion is essential for a full accounting of the environmental consequences of armed conflict, both to inform accountability and reparations processes, to guide long-term recovery and peacebuilding, and to ensure that conflict-affected regions are not left behind in meeting global climate and sustainability goals.

Rather than considering only the immediate or acute environmental impacts of armed conflicts, this focus issue seeks research contributions that examine the broader spectrum of environmental consequences, including indirect effects that unfold over seasons or years and extend across diffuse geographies. We are particularly interested in research that integrates conflict dynamics into analyses of environmental outcomes, and that employs innovative combinations of Earth observation, geospatial data, and qualitative insights to capture the plurality of conflict consequences at different temporal and spatial scales. Such approaches can illuminate how armed conflict processes, shaped by both deliberate and involuntary decisions, translate into specific environmental impacts.

Example topics include:

Examining linkages across urban, peri-urban, and rural environmental impacts of war
Presenting novel approaches for assessing soil contamination and degradation in conflict settings
Building causal frameworks linking conflict processes and environmental outcomes
Multi-sensor monitoring of carbon emissions and atmospheric pollution arising from armed conflicts
Tracking environmental impacts over the arc of war preparations, warfare, and post-war stages
Assessing livelihood impacts of legacies of war including mining, unexploded ordnance, and toxic pollution
Innovating methods for validating remotely detected environmental impacts
Tracing the impacts of armed conflict on telecoupled land use systems and cross-border resource flows
Integrating empirical environmental datasets to guide post-conflict environmental peacebuilding
Disentangling impacts of war, aid, and climate change on food insecurity in conflict and displacement settings
Counter-intuitive cases of conflict-induced improvements in ecosystem services

All Guest Editors have confirmed they have no conflicts of interest relating to this focus collection.

投稿流程

Stage 1: Expressions of interest submitted via email by 28 February 2026

Authors interested in contributing an article should email an expression of interest to erl@ioppublishing.org this should include:

1. Working title

2. Names and institutional affiliations of corresponding author and suggested co-authors

3. Summary of method(s) used and time period of study

4. 200-word summary of key findings and main argument

We aim to provide authors with feedback within 2 weeks of submitting an expression of interest. If approved, authors will be invited to formally submit a full manuscript.

Stage 2: Submission of articles for peer review by 30 September 2026

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期刊介绍

Environmental Research Letters

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