PEACETIME ACTIVITIES OF THE MILITARY AS A SOURCE OF THREAT TO THE ENVIRONMENT IN CONTEXT OF GREEN CRIMINOLOGY

Purpose of this paper is to raise awareness of peacetime military activities with adverse impact to the environment and to present those in context of green criminology. Thus, our aim is to create a typology of those peacetime military activities that are causing environmental harm. The military with its capacities and as institution legitimated by state, even during peacetime activities, has the potential of causing environmental harm or environmental crime. Since the military is operating in different components of natural environment, we assume that peacetime activities of the military have an adverse effect on land, water and air components. This assumption dictates the need to produce the typology of those peacetime military activities which have harmful effects to the environment. Typology is general since it encapsulates those environmental harmful activities which are evident from different geographical locations worldwide and are commonly find among different states armed forces.