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Ecocide in Ukraine: an assessment of geospatial and environmental evidence of war-related ecosystem destruction in Ukraine

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datacite.subject.fosCiências Naturais::Ciências da Terra e do Ambiente
datacite.subject.sdg15:Proteger a Vida Terrestre
datacite.subject.sdg14:Proteger a Vida Marinha
datacite.subject.sdg16:Paz, Justiça e Instituições Eficazes
dc.contributor.authorLeal Filho, Walter
dc.contributor.authorFedoruk, Mariia
dc.contributor.authorKunyk, Oleksandra
dc.contributor.authorSemak, Uliana
dc.contributor.authorYaroshenko, Nataliia
dc.contributor.authorRuda, Maria
dc.contributor.authorHenrique, João Paulino Pires Eustachio
dc.contributor.authorDinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta
dc.contributor.authorLuetz, Johannes
dc.contributor.editorRay, Joseph George
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-02T08:18:03Z
dc.date.available2026-07-02T08:18:03Z
dc.date.issued2026-07-01
dc.description.abstractThe ongoing war in Ukraine has triggered large-scale and multi-dimensional environmental degradation affecting soils, freshwater systems, forests, agricultural landscapes, atmospheric quality, and biodiversity. Beyond immediate physical destruction, these impacts compromise ecosystem resilience, human health, food security, and long-term environmental governance. Despite extensive monitoring efforts, there remains a lack of integrated and spatially explicit analytical frameworks that systematically link observable environmental damage to discussions surrounding the concept of ecocide and post-conflict recovery planning. This study provides a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of war-related environmental degradation across Ukraine using a mixed-methods approach combining multi-temporal geospatial analysis of satellite imagery (including Sentinel-1/2, Copernicus Emergency Management Service, NASA FIRMS, and Global Forest Watch) with a structured qualitative synthesis of governmental, intergovernmental, and civil-society reports. The approach enables the identification, classification, and spatial quantification of observable environmental disturbances across key domains, including industrial infrastructure, hydrological systems, agricultural land, forest ecosystems, protected areas, and urban environments. The results reveal widespread land-cover transformation, soil degradation and potential contamination, disruption of hydrological regimes following critical infrastructure damage, intensified wildfire activity in conflict zones, significant forest loss, and transboundary atmospheric pollution. The study develops a geospatial typology of war-induced environmental impacts and examines how these patterns may be interpreted in relation to the proposed criteria of “severe, widespread, and long-term” environmental harm associated with contemporary ecocide debates. By integrating spatial indicators of conflict-related environmental disturbance with qualitative environmental evidence, this research advances methodological tools for environmental monitoring in conflict settings and supports risk-based zoning, prioritisation of ecological restoration, and the integration of scientific evidence into environmental governance and post-conflict environmental assessment, providing a scalable and replicable framework for analysing ecosystem degradation in war-affected regions.eng
dc.identifier.citationLeal Filho, W., Fedoruk, M., Kunyk, O., Semak, U., Yaroshenko, N., Ruda, M., Eustachio, J. P. P., Dinis, M. A. P., & Luetz, J. M. (2026). Ecocide in Ukraine: An assessment of geospatial and environmental evidence of war-related ecosystem destruction in Ukraine. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 14, Artigo 1823887. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2026.1823887
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fenvs.2026.1823887
dc.identifier.issn2296-665X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10284/15517
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherFrontiers Media SA
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2026.1823887/full
dc.relation.ispartofFrontiers in Environmental Science
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectConflict-related environmental damage
dc.subjectEcocide
dc.subjectEcosystem disturbance
dc.subjectEnvironmental Monitoring
dc.subjectGeospatial analysis
dc.subjectRemote sensing
dc.subjectSoil and water contamination
dc.titleEcocide in Ukraine: an assessment of geospatial and environmental evidence of war-related ecosystem destruction in Ukraineeng
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.titleFrontiers in Environmental Science
oaire.citation.volume14
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