The Environmental Consequences of War
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The Environmental Consequences of War

Author: Jay Austin, Carl E.Bruch

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Exhaustive and valuable.All those who debate the need for and the means of creating wartime norms and rules or environmental protection will find ample ammunition in this impressive contribution.

This is an ambitious, multidisciplinary contribution...with a unique application of peacetime lessons of environmental and human rights law to the law of war. It uses detailed scientific and economic assessment tools to solve the extremely complicated problems of preventing, assigning liability for, and redressing ecological and human wartime damage. A must-read for anyone wishing to understand the effects of armed conflict beyond simple causalty figures or destroyed material.

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peacetime environmental treaties peacetime environmental law wartime environmental damage expected utility locus averting behavior method inspected state party wartime environmental protection peacetime treaties prescriptive landscape interim lost value sliding scale theory compensatory restoration actions environment during armed conflict addressing environmental consequences guidelines for military manuals international liability regime bind belligerents civil liability conventions hostile military activities valuation paradigms oil spill program interim losses environmental damage arising public health damages oil trenches

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