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Environmental Consequences of War Legal, Economic, and Scientific Perspectives

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ISBN-10: 0521046920

ISBN-13: 9780521046923

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jay E. Austin, Carl E. Bruch

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Over the past three decades we have witnessed the environmental devastation caused by military conflict in the wake of the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Kosovo conflict. This book brings together 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. This analysis of the existing legal framework includes lessons from peacetime environmental law, scientific assessment and economic valuation of ecological and public health damage, and proposals for future developments.
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Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 712
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.98" long x 1.57" tall
Weight: 2.310
Language: English

List of illustrations
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
General Principles: Introduction
The environment in wartime: an overview
The Legal Framework
Existing and Emerging Wartime Standards: Introduction
The law of war and environmental damage
War and the environment: fault lines in the prescriptive landscape
The inadequacy of the existing legal approach to environmental protection in wartime
United States Navy development of operational-environmental doctrine Captain
In furtherance of environmental guidelines for armed forces during peace and war
Lessons from Other Legal Regimes: Introduction
Peacetime environmental law as a basis of state responsibility for environmental damage caused by war
Environmental damages under the Law of the Sea Convention
The place of the environment in international tribunals
Civil liability for war-caused environmental damage: models from United States law
Assessing the Impacts - Scientific Methods and Issues
Ecological and Natural Resource Impacts: Introduction
Scientific assessment of the long-term environmental consequences of war
The Gulf War impact on the terrestrial environment of Kuwait: an overview
War-related damages to the marine environment in the ROPME Sea Area
War and biodiversity: an assessment of impacts
Public Health Impacts: Introduction
Tracking the four horsemen: the public health approach to the impact of war and war-induced environmental destruction in the twentieth century
Defoliants: the long-term health implications
The impact of military preparedness and militarism on health and the environment
War and infectious diseases: international law and the public health consequences of armed conflict
Valuing the Impacts - Economic Methods and Issues: Introduction
Ecological and Natural Resource Damages
Restoration-based approaches to compensation for natural resource damages: moving towards convergence in US and international law
Public Health Damages
Valuing public health damages arising from war
Valuing the health consequences of war
Prospects for the Future: Introduction
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
The Chemical Weapons Convention: a verification and enforcement model for determining legal responsibility for environmental harm caused by war
International legal mechanisms for determining liability for environmental damage under international humanitarian law
Waging war against the world: the need to move from war crimes to environmental crimes
Epilogue
Index