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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.
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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