Nine years after the invasion of Kuwait: the impacts of the Iraqi left-over ordnance

Ali Muhammad Khuraibet
Additional contact information
Ali Muhammad Khuraibet: College of Health Sciences, PAAET

Environment Systems and Decisions, 1999, vol. 19, issue 4, 361-368

Abstract: Abstract The Iraqi regime occupied the State of Kuwait for seven months. During this period the Iraqi Armed Forces brought into Kuwait massive quantities of army materials. These included heavy military equipment, armoured vehicles, tanks, missiles, munitions and mines. The worst of these were the mines and munitions. During the first five years of liberation, casualties in Kuwait were high and they reached hundreds of cases of both civilians and military personnel. Since 1995, the number of casualties has dropped sharply, largely as a result of the clearing efforts, but casualties are still occurring. This paper describes the type, quantities and distribution of the ordnance within the Kuwaiti desert, together with the clearance efforts. Because of the particularly adverse impacts of land mine use, strict international measures are required to prevent them being made.

Keywords: Environmental Management; Nature Conservation; Adverse Impact; Kuwait; Military Personnel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1023/A:1006662123050 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:envsyd:v:19:y:1999:i:4:d:10.1023_a:1006662123050

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.springer.com/journal/10669

DOI: 10.1023/A:1006662123050

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Environment Systems and Decisions from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().