Environmental Law of Armed Conflict

Download or read book Environmental Law of Armed Conflict written by Nada Al-Duaij and published by Brill Nijhoff. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely study examines how the environmental impact of modern warfare violates fundamental principles of international environmental and humanitarian laws and why these consideration need to be included in rules of armed conflict. If direct attacks on innocent civilians are universally recognized as unacceptable then environ-mental devastation of their habitat by acts of war must also be recognized as an unacceptable consequence of armed conflict. The author presents the case that the international community understand its responsibility to curb environ-mental consequences of modern weaponry and incorporate environmental concerns into the conventions regulating armed conflict. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.