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The editorial group War, Environment, and Health was established within the journal Pollution & Diseases to address a critical gap in contemporary scientific research: the systematic analysis of armed conflict as a driver of environmental transformation and public health outcomes.
Modern warfare reshapes landscapes, contaminates soils and waters, disrupts energy, agricultural, and sanitation infrastructures, and produces long-term health consequences for civilian populations. These processes are not peripheral to conflict; they are integral to its conduct and legacy. Yet they remain insufficiently examined within conventional disciplinary boundaries.
This editorial group approaches war as an active environmental force—one that mobilizes matter, energy, and toxic substances at scale, and whose ecological and infectious effects persist long after active hostilities cease. At the same time, the group does not advance a single theoretical or methodological doctrine. It provides a structured scholarly space for diverse scientific approaches, including environmental sciences, ecology, hydrology, toxicology, epidemiology, infectious ecology, public health, and post-conflict recovery studies.
The ongoing war in Ukraine occupies a central position within this initiative, serving as a contemporary case through which the environmental and health dimensions of warfare can be examined in a highly industrialized and infrastructurally complex setting. Insights derived from this context have broad relevance for understanding conflict-related environmental and health risks globally.
The War, Environment, and Health editorial group curates and evaluates research that is methodologically rigorous, ethically responsible, and analytically clear. It supports interdisciplinary dialogue, critical debate, and comparative analysis, while maintaining the journal’s commitment to scientific integrity and openness to differing perspectives.
By establishing this group, Pollution & Diseases affirms that understanding the environmental and health consequences of war is not optional, but essential for advancing contemporary science and informing post-conflict recovery, risk assessment, and long-term public health protection.
*****Dmitry Nikolaenko,PhD, Doctor Habilitatus. New Euro Vision Group, Independent Expert in Environmental and Health Sciences.Prague, Czech Republic.• ORCID: 0009-0001-4173-6669 • Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=rsQ1ldwAAAAJ • RG: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dmitry-Nikolaenko/research • E-mail: moc.duolci%40eniarkuue