Explore: Economic Aspects Of Unexploded Ordnance

be reutilized for other purposes, these ranges must be cleared of all unexploded ordnance. This is usually performed by civilian specialists trained in

in the Zone Rouge, because of the vast amounts of human and animal remains, and millions of items of unexploded ordnance contaminating the land. Some

where many unexploded ordnance remain, leftover from World War I and II. If these unexploded ordnance were to explode, they pose the same level of threat

conditions of trench warfare, and to what extent the civilian home front accepted and endorsed the war effort. As late as 2007, unexploded ordnance at battlefield

majority of the population who were engaged in subsistence agriculture in a rural context, and small centres of populations in the towns where economic activity

without the threat of landmines and unexploded remnants of war (ERW), which include unexploded ordnance and abandoned explosive ordnance. This means that

there may be as many as four to six million mines and other pieces of unexploded ordnance in Cambodia. Some estimates, however, run as high as ten million

formulate an opinion on the risk and socio-economic aspects of the proposed restriction. Within a year of publication, the opinions are sent to the European

(AP) along with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unexploded ordnance (UXO) with the aim of alleviating the humanitarian catastrophe caused by mines

from unexploded ordnance, etc., or events when the circumstances remain unclear or are in dispute. The figures include all reported casualties of all ages