Jay E. Austin / Carl E. Bruch (eds.)

The Environmental Consequences of War

Legal, Economic, and Scientific Perspectives
Herausgeber: Austin, Jay E.; Bruch, Carl E.

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Produktbeschreibung

Interdisciplinary analysis of the implications of wartime damage to the natural environment and public health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 712
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1137g
• ISBN-13: 9780521046923
• ISBN-10: 0521046920
• Artikelnr.: 23176704

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; List of tables; List of contributors;
Acknowledgements; Foreword Klaus Toepfer; Introduction Jay E. Austin and
Carl E. Bruch; Part I. General Principles: Introduction Carl E. Bruch; 1.
The environment in wartime: an overview Christopher D. Stone; Part II. The
Legal Framework; Section 1. Existing and Emerging Wartime Standards:
Introduction Carl E. Bruch; 2. The law of war and environmental damage Adam
Roberts; 3. War and the environment: fault lines in the prescriptive
landscape Michael N. Schmitt; 4. The inadequacy of the existing legal
approach to environmental protection in wartime Richard Falk; 5. United
States Navy development of operational-environmental doctrine Captain John
P. Quinn, Captain Richard T. Evans and Lt. Commander Michael J. Boock; 6.
In furtherance of environmental guidelines for armed forces during peace
and war Arthur H. Westing; Section 2. Lessons from Other Legal Regimes:
Introduction Jay E. Austin; 7. Peacetime environmental law as a basis of
state responsibility for environmental damage caused by war Silja Vöneky;
8. Environmental damages under the Law of the Sea Convention Thomas A.
Mensah; 9. The place of the environment in international tribunals David D.
Caron; 10. Civil liability for war-caused environmental damage: models from
United States law Jeffrey G. Miller; Part III. Assessing the Impacts -
Scientific Methods and Issues; Section 1. Ecological and Natural Resource
Impacts: Introduction Jessica D. Jacoby; 11. Scientific assessment of the
long-term environmental consequences of war Asit K. Biswas; 12. 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; 13.
War-related damages to the marine environment in the ROPME Sea Area Mahmood
Y. Abdulraheem; 14. War and biodiversity: an assessment of impacts Jeffrey
A. McNeely; Section 2. Public Health Impacts: Introduction Jessica D.
Jacoby; 15. Tracking the four horsemen: the public health approach to the
impact of war and war-induced environmental destruction in the twentieth
century Jennifer Leaning; 16. Defoliants: the long-term health implications
Alastair W. M. Hay; 17. The impact of military preparedness and militarism
on health and the environment Victor W. Sidel; 18. 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; Section 1. Ecological and Natural
Resource Damages: 19. Restoration-based approaches to compensation for
natural resource damages: moving towards convergence in US and
international law Carol A. Jones; Section 2. Public Health Damages: 20.
Valuing public health damages arising from war Mark Dickie and Shelby
Gerking; 21. Valuing the health consequences of war W. Kip Viscusi; Part V.
Prospects for the Future: Introduction Jay E. Austin; 22. 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; 23. The Chemical
Weapons Convention: a verification and enforcement model for determining
legal responsibility for environmental harm caused by war Barry Kellman;
24. International legal mechanisms for determining liability for
environmental damage under international humanitarian law Jean-Marie
Henckaerts; 25. 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. Austin; Index.