The Environmental Consequences of War: Legal,

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.

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
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