The Environmental Consequences of War

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.