The Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic, and Scientific PerspectivesJay E. Austin, Carl E. Bruch 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
The Gulf War impact on the terrestrial environment | 2 |
Introduction | 13 |
A Existing and emerging wartime standards | 39 |
The law of war and environmental damage | 47 |
fault lines in the prescriptive | 87 |
The inadequacy of the existing legal approach | 137 |
United States Navy development of operational | 156 |
In furtherance of environmental guidelines for armed | 171 |
В B Public health impacts | 379 |
the longterm health implications | 402 |
The impact of military preparedness and militarism | 426 |
international law | 439 |
Introduction | 469 |
A Ecological and natural resource damages | 477 |
Valuing public health damages arising from war | 501 |
pollutants 5256 | 525 |
B Lessons from other legal regimes | 183 |
Peacetime environmental law as a basis of state | 190 |
Environmental damages under the Law of | 226 |
The place of the environment in international tribunals | 250 |
A Ecological and natural resource impacts | 297 |
Scientific assessment of the longterm environmental | 303 |
terrestrial environment of Kuwait 3223 | 327 |
Warrelated damage to the marine environment in | 338 |
an assessment of impacts | 353 |
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The Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic, and Scientific ... Jay E. Austin,Carl E. Bruch No preview available - 2007 |
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References to this book
At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters Benjamin Wisner No preview available - 2004 |