{"id":1682,"date":"2023-07-01T03:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T07:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2023-07-01T03:35:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T07:35:17","slug":"ceres-kakhovka-ecocide-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2023\/07\/01\/ceres-kakhovka-ecocide-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"CERES: Kakhovka ‘ecocide’ resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The University of Toronto Munk School’s Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies<\/a> (CERES) held a conference on June 20 on the topic “After Ecocide: Grappling With the Ecological and Socioeconomic Consequences of the Destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant in Southern Ukraine.\u201d A recording of the conference can be viewed here:  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5xgB4coV8Ws<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference organizers have kindly allowed me to share the following set of resources on the topic of the impacts of the dam’s June 6 destruction by Russian explosives. The list includes organizations that are collecting donations to help the victims of the disaster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Commentary and preliminary assessments<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine Nature Conservation Group. “The Consequences of the Russian Terrorist Act on the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant<\/a>.” June 7, 2023 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statement by Various Ukrainian Environmental NGOs. “Destruction of the Kakhovka HPP: Preliminary Conclusions and Possible Consequences<\/a>.” June 6, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine. “Potential Impact of the Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam<\/a>.” Analytical Note. June 9, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview with Ihor Pylypenko. \u201cWho and What May Suffer Most from The Kakhovka Dam Destruction \u2013 Expert Interview<\/a>.” New Voice of Ukraine<\/em>. June 20. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darya Tsymbalyuk. “Kakhovska Dam Destruction is Part of the Climate Emergency.<\/a>” Open Democracy<\/em>. June 12, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suwita Hani Randhawa. “Will the Kakhovka Dam Destruction Make Ecocide an International Crime?”<\/a> Open Democracy<\/em>. June 19, 2023 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background Historical Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kuns, Brian. “‘In These Complicated Times’: An Environmental History of Irrigated Agriculture in Post-Communist Ukraine<\/a>.” Water Alternatives<\/em>, vol. 11, no. 3, 2018, pp. 866\u201392. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Olenenko and Stefan Dorondel. “Territorialization and the Transformation of Southern Ukrainian Wetlands, 1880-1960<\/a>.” In A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe<\/em>, edited by Stefan Dorondel and Stelu Serban, 1st ed., University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022, pp. 65\u201386. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victor Ostapchuk. \u201cThe Zaporizhian Cossacks and the Dnipro River Refugium<\/a>.\u201d Mediterranean Rivers in Global Perspective<\/em>, edited by Johannes Christian Bernhardt et al., Brill, 2019, pp. 273\u2013302. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roman Cybriwsky. Along Ukraine\u2019s River: A Social and Environmental History of the Dnipro<\/em><\/a>. Central European University Press. 2018.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Black Sea<\/strong> (in Ukrainian)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Maritime Ecology. For updates in Ukrainian see https:\/\/sea.gov.ua\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Institute of Marine Biology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. http:\/\/www.imb.odessa.ua\/?id=209041<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Links to organizations providing help for victims of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n