The Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic, and Scientific Perspectives Book

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 theterrestrial 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.