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From Battlefields to Bytes: The Environmental Scars of Modernity

Professor Ian Mudway · Gresham College

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About

War's environmental legacies disproportionately burden the civilian populations left behind. While research focuses on combatant exposures, civilians face chronic contamination from heavy metals, chemical residues, unexploded ordnance, and asbestos, often exacerbated by disrupted infrastructure and psychological trauma. Framed through the exposome, this lecture highlights the need for greater research and policy focus on these long-term, low-level exposures and their impact on civilian health, advocating for remediation, care, and environmental justice.

Lectures

  1. War's Toxic Legacy 2025-10-14 · Audio
  2. The Price of Pixels: Unmasking the Environmental Impact of Our Digital Lives 2026-02-17 · Audio
  3. The Pill and the Planet: Can We Have Both a Healthy Aging Population and a Sustainable Future? 2026-05-12 · Audio

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Ian Mudway
Year
2025
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Earth and environment, History
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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