The environmental consequences of war : legal, economic, and scientific perspectives / edited by Jay E. Austin and Carl E. Bruch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Austin, Jay, editor.

Bruch, Carl, 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War (International law).

Environmental law, International.

Environmental law.

War--Environmental aspects.

War.

Environmental degradation--History--20th century.

Environmental degradation.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 691 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The environmental devastation caused by military conflict has been witnessed in the wake of the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Kosovo conflict. This book brings together leading international lawyers, military officers, scientists and economists to examine the legal, political, economic and scientific implications of wartime damage to the natural environment and public health. The book considers issues raised by the application of humanitarian norms and legal rules designed to protect the environment, and the destructive nature of war. Contributors offer an analysis and critique of the existing law of war framework, lessons from peacetime environmental law, means of scientific assessment and economic valuation of ecological and public health damage, and proposals for future legal and institutional developments. This book provides a contemporary forum for interdisciplinary analysis of armed conflict and the environment, and explores ways to prevent and redress wartime environmental damage.

Contents:

Foreword / by Klaus Toepfer

Introduction / Jay E. Austin and Carl E. Bruch

part I. General principles. Introduction / Carl E. Bruch ; The environment in wartime: an overview / Christopher D. Stone

part II. The legal framework: A. Existing and emerging wartime standards. Introduction / Carl E. Bruch ; The laws of war and environmental damage / Adam Roberts ; War and the environment: fault lines in the prescriptive landscape / Michael N. Schmitt ; The inadequacy of the existing legal approach to environmental protection in wartime / Richard Falk ; United States Navy development of operational-environmental doctrine / Captain John P. Quinn, Captain Richard T. Evans and Lt. Commander Michael J. Boock ; In furtherance of environmental guidelines for armed forces during peace and war / Arthur H. Westing

B. Lessons from other legal regimes. Introduction / Jay E. Austin ; Peacetime environmental law as a basis of state responsibility for environmental damage caused by war / Silja Vöneky ; Environmental damages under the Law of the Sea convention / Thomas A. Mensah ; The place of the environment in international tribunals / David D. Caron ; Civil liability for war-caused environmental damage: models from United States law / Jeffrey G. Miller

part III. Assessing the impacts

scientific methods and issues: A. Ecological and natural resource impacts. Introduction / Jessica D. Jacoby ; Scientific assessment of the long-term environmental consequences of war / Asit K. Biswas ; The Gulf War impact on the terrestrial environment of Kuwait: an overview / Samira A.S. Omar, Ernest Briskey, Raafat Misak and Adel A.S.O. Asem ; War-related damages to the marine environment in the ROPME sea area / Mahmood Y. Abdulraheem ; War and biodiversity: an assessment of impacts / Jeffrey A. McNeely

B. Public health impacts. Introduction / Jessica D. Jacoby ; Tracking the four horsemen: the public health approach to the impact of war and war-induced environmental destruction in the twentieth century / Jennifer Leaning ; Defoliants: the long-term health implications / Alastair W.M. Hay ; The impact of military preparedness and militarism on health and the environment / Victor W. Sidel ; War and infectious diseases: international law and the public health consequences of armed conflict / David P. Fidler

part IV. Valuing the impacts

economic methods and issues. Introduction / Eric Feldman

A. Ecological and natural resource damages. Restoration-based approaches to compensation for natural resource damages: moving towards convergence in US and international law / Carol A. Jones

B. Public health damages. Valuing public health damages arising from war / Mark Dickie and Shelby Gerking ; Valuing the health consequences of war / W. Kip Viscusi

part V. Prospects for the future. Introduction / Jay E. Austin ; Protecting specially important areas during international armed conflict: a critique of the IUCN draft convention on the prohibition of hostile military activities in protected areas / Richard G. Tarasofsky ; The chemical weapons convention: a verification and enforcement model for determining legal responsibility for environmental harm caused by war / Barry Kellman ; International legal mechanisms for determining liability for environmental damage under international humanitarian law / Jean-Marie Henckaerts ; Waging war against the world: the need to move from war crimes to environmental crimes / Mark A. Drumbl

Epilogue / Carl E. Bruch and Jay E. Austinches.

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ISBN:

9780511522321

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