Effect of Afghanistan War on Environment

Vol-5 | Issue-01 | January 2020 | Published Online: 16 January 2020    PDF ( 306 KB )
Author(s)
Dehyar Mitra 1; Wafa Azimullah 2

1Research Scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Environmental Science

2Lecturer at Kabul University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutics

Abstract

Great environmental damage occurred in Afghanistan during the last 3 decade war. This prolonged and divesting war deliberated environmental damages. War have impacts on peoples’ lives and there is no doubt that such impacts are detrimental to human physical and mental well-being in the short and long terms. Needs in the event of a terrorist attack involving the use of chemical and/or biological warfare (CBW) agents. Several decades of war and its consequent has brought devastating destruction throughout Afghanistan from various sources. Biodiversity lost and soil degradation are also effected by war. ongoing conflict, internal displacement, high rates of population growth, low levels of education, and poverty, result in damage of environment and longer-term sustainability of natural resource use and management. This article reviews the adverse consequences of war on different components of Environment such as Biodiversity, soil, deforestation and Public health.

Keywords
Afghanistan, Environment, Adverse effect of war, Biodiversity, Soil, Deformation, Public health.
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