Landmines and unexploded ordnance : a resource book
- Author/Creator:
- McGrath, Rae, author
- Publication/Creation:
- London ; Sterling, Virginia : Pluto Press, [2000]
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
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- Full Title:
- Landmines and unexploded ordnance : a resource book / Rae McGrath
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- Table of Contents:
- Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Key Agencies and their Roles -- Governments of Mine-affected Countries -- The United Nations -- Non-governmental Organisations -- Commercial Demining Companies -- The Donors -- The Media -- Notes -- 1 An Introduction to Landmines and Unexploded Ordnance -- The development of landmines -- Landmines - the problem recognised -- Characteristics of modern landmines -- Mode of Operation -- Type of Activation Mechanism -- Deployment Method -- Unexploded ordnance - garbage of war -- Landmines by another name - submunitions -- What is a minefield? -- Notes 1-17 -- 18-22 -- 2 Landmines and Unexploded Ordnance - Post-conflict Impact -- Direct impact -- The Human Body -- Vulnerability -- Landmines and community confidence -- The cultural cost -- Indirect impact -- Medical and health services -- Transport and trade -- The impact on development -- Notes 1-15 -- 3 The Survey Process -- Mine and UXO eradication - a task for the military? ? -- Financial considerations -- Risk considerations -- Cost -- Suitability to role -- The moral perspective -- Eradicating landmines and UXO - responding logically -- Surveys -- Mapping -- Marking -- Minefield reduction -- Community mine awareness -- Central record keeping -- Landmine and UXO eradication -- The basics - chickens and eggs -- Recognition -- Where to begin? -- The survey process -- Establishing the facts sequence -- The Survey Task Force -- How to conduct a Level One impact assessment -- The questionnaire -- Training the survey team -- Aims, target selection and assessment methodology -- The assessment report -- The limitations of Level One assessment -- How to implement a Level Two survey -- Building a picture sources of information -- Establishing priorities -- Practical survey techniques.
Comparative values of Level One assessments and Level Two surveys and political influences on the process -- Notes 1-7 -- 8-11 -- 12-25 -- 26-34 -- 4.1 Eradicating Landmines and Unexploded Ordnance -- Physical eradication of landmines and UXO the process -- Manual clearance -- Electronic search -- Guide or base stick -- Safety distances and minefield management -- Clothing -- Mine probes -- Mechanisation -- Dogs -- Minefield reduction -- Minefield marking -- Battle area clearance -- Technique summary -- Quality assurance -- Accidents - being prepared -- Immediate minefield drills following an accident -- Planning -- Insurance for demining operations -- Notes -- 4.2 Sustainable Management Structures for National Demining Programmes -- Contrasting approaches -- Some relevant practical management skills -- The decision-making process in management -- Key structural considerations -- Profile and oversight of national programmes -- Sustainability -- Organisational sustainability -- Structural sustainability -- Manpower sustainability -- Sustainable technology -- Notes 1-2 -- 5 Responding to the Needs of Mine- affected Communities -- Mine victims - some observations -- Community mine awareness - a lesson too far? ? -- Why mine awareness? -- How not to do mine awareness global responses to localised problems -- A proven approach mine action teams -- Refugees, internally displaced people and nomadic groups -- The real challenge - responding to the victims of war -- Model for a two- day, first- aid training course -- First- aid training course reassessment after four months 208A future for war victims -- A case study widows and amputees in minefields -- Notes -- Appendix Resource Information -- Organisations involved directly in landmine and UXO eradication -- Organisations working directly with landmine- and UXO- affected communities.
United Nations landmine and UXO action key contact points -- Organisations and companies working in mine- related fields -- Landmine- and UXO- related websites -- Commercial service suppliers to landmine- and UXO- eradication operations -- Recommended reading and viewing -- Endnotes -- Glossary -- Index -- abdominal injuries 34 -- academics 131 -- acceptable clearance rate -- 162 -- 163 -- accident -- in a cleared area - drill 164 -- in a cleared area - drill 165 -- in an uncleared area - drill 165 -- in an uncleared area - drill 165 -- in an uncleared area - drill 166 -- in an uncleared area - drill 166 -- accidental detonation -- 142 -- 144 -- accidents 163-166 -- Adriatic 135 -- adult education classes 201 -- advanced first aid 163 -- aerial, aerial configurations 91 -- Afghan -- clearance programme 149 -- clearance programme 150 -- government forces 15 -- government forces 61 -- refugees 193 -- society 151 -- Afghanistan -- -Pakistan border 31 -- Mines Survey [ 102-106 -- xviii, 14 -- xviii, 15 -- xviii, 31 -- xviii, 45 -- xviii, 57 -- xviii, 61 -- xviii, 77 -- Africa -- 16 -- 151 -- 190 -- 191 -- 204 -- African Medical and Research Foundation, AMREF 30 -- age, vulnerability by 41 -- agricultural -- area 61 -- area 82 -- cycle 40 -- rehabilitation 45 -- rehabilitation 66 -- rehabilitation 133 -- agriculture 84 -- aid budget 79 -- air support 25 -- air-delivery 6 -- aircraft -- evacuation 163 -- evacuation 163 -- evacuation 205 -- evacuation 205 -- airstrip 92 -- Akashi, Yasushi -- UN Emergency Relief Co-ordinator 173 -- Albanian aggression 136 -- allocated priority 117 -- aluminium -- 20 -- 21 -- ambulance -- 63 -- 143 -- 163 -- American civil war 1 -- amputation -- 15 -- 30 -- 32-34 -- amputee -- 35 -- 63 -- 211 -- 212-216 -- amputees as managers 212 -- Angola -- 15 -- 33 -- 58 -- 59 -- 64 -- 85 -- 134.
animal remains 92 -- anti- -- -handling device 17 -- -handling device 217 -- -lift device 13 -- -lift device 17 -- -material mine 17 -- -personnel blast mine, safety distance 144 -- -personnel bounding fragmentation mine, safety distance 144 -- -personnel fragmentation mine, safety distance 144 -- -personnel mine, as anti-tank mine detonator 36 -- -tank mine, safety distance 144 -- disturbance device 13 -- arable land, access to 46 -- area -- denial mine 17 -- minefield maps 125 -- reduction 152 -- area-denial -- 7 -- 15 -- philosophy 7 -- philosophy 7 -- philosophy 15 -- philosophy 15 -- arming -- cycle 12 -- cycle 20 -- failure 12 -- failure 12 -- failure 22 -- failure 22 -- lever 20 -- arms -- dealers 29 -- industry 16 -- industry 16 -- industry 147-150 -- industry 147-150 -- industry, second-hand 10 -- manufacturers 24 -- manufacturers 29 -- manufacturers 147-150 -- artillery -- 28 -- ammunition 19 -- Asia -- 16 -- 151 -- 190 -- 191 -- Asmara, Eritrea 217 -- assumed factors 92 -- atlantic wall 6 -- Ausaid 79 -- Australian -- army 79 -- Department of Defense 79 -- overseas aid budget 79 -- Austria 10 -- BAC survey, sample 156-159 -- backhoe 150 -- Bakelite 6 -- Balkans 135 -- ball bearings 6 -- ballistic -- helmet 145 -- jacket 145 -- waistcoat 145 -- bamboo, mine cases 6 -- banana plantation 54 -- barrier minefields 5 -- base stick 142 -- baseline -- document 124 -- survey information 119 -- survey information 119 -- survey information 124 -- survey information 124 -- Baseth village, Cambodia 53 -- Batambang province, Cambodia 214 -- Battambang town, Cambodia 53 -- battery-charging -- 131 -- 141 -- 142 -- battle area clearance, BAC -- 135 -- 155-160 -- battlefield 25 -- Bavel district, Cambodia 55 -- bearings -- 122 -- 124 -- 125 -- Belgium -- 9 -- 10 -- 192 -- benchmark [BM] -- benchmark [BM] 124.
benchmark [BM] 125 -- benchmark [BM] 144 -- Benda_a, Alejandro 195 -- bladder, injuries to 34 -- Blair, Tony -- xxii -- 136 -- blast 18 -- blast pressure wave 34 -- bleeding -- 35 -- 204 -- blinded war victims -- 216 -- 217 -- blindness -- 34 -- 63 -- 216 -- 217 -- block search [BAC] 160 -- BLU -- [- 23 -- [- 136 -- BLV[-45] anti-vehicle mine 8 -- BL[-755] cluster bomb -- 25 -- 191 -- bomb casing 7 -- bomblet -- 21 -- 23 -- bombs -- 19 -- 155 -- bombsuit 145 -- boobytrap -- 8 -- 13 -- boost the effects of landmine 36 -- Bosnia 196 -- Bosnia and Herzegovina 42 -- BPD Difesa 12 -- breach, breaches 122-124 -- breaching party 13 -- breaking new ground, vulnerability by 40 -- bridges -- 115 -- 116 -- 149 -- British -- Aerospace 191 -- army 10 -- forces 24 -- military strategists 27 -- soldiers, killed 136 -- British-made submunitions 25 -- Buddhist communities 53 -- Bulgaria 9 -- bureaucrat -- 64 -- 131 -- butterfly mine -- 7 -- 32 -- button bomblet 7 -- Cambodia -- 14 -- 25 -- 33 -- 44 -- 53 -- 57 -- 58 -- Cambodian Mine Action Centre, CMAC 177 -- camels 114 -- canal 117 -- canalise enemy forces 27 -- capabilities, post-conflict, of weapons 29 -- capacity-building -- 175 -- 176 -- casualties -- 6 -- 8 -- 15 -- 42 -- 81 -- 112 -- 113 -- reporting system 112 -- casualty data -- 32 -- 42 -- 112 -- cattle herding 55 -- CBU[-24/B] 'Sadeye' 23 -- central -- government 119 -- record keeping 82 -- Central America -- 16 -- 190 -- Central Intelligence Agency, CIA -- 11 -- 59 -- Centre for International Studies, Managua 195 -- Chagaserai bridge 160 -- Chagaserai, Afghanistan 160 -- Chamkani, Afghanistan -- 31 -- 116 -- chemical-fused mine 8 -- child amputees 63 -- child at risk, the -- 32 -- 42 -- 200 -- children -- reaction to explosion 34 -- scrap collection 21 -- vulnerability of 40-42 -- China -- 9 -- 10 -- 12 -- 16 -- 192 -- 217.
Chinese forces 6. - Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- General Note:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936945895702486
- ISBN:
- 1-84964-013-0
0-585-42590-6
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