A new shield for the environment: Peacetime treaties as legal restraints of wartime damage

Review of European Community and International Environmental Law

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 20-32

  Vöneky, Silja ^b  

^a Federal Ministry of Justice   (Germany)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; WAR;

EID: 0033816869     PISSN: 09628797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9388.00229     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. In this analysis the term 'peacetime international treaty' refers to all treaties which lead - directly or indirectly - to the protection of the environment and whose application is not limited to the existence of a war. On the general problems of defining 'environment', see P.W. Birnie/A.E. Boyle, International Law and the Environment (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992), at 1 et seq.
2. For an examination of the impact of major peacetime environmental treaties on the methods and means of warfare, see S. Vöneky, Die Fortgeltung des Friedensumweltvölkerrechts in internationalen bewaffneten Konflikten (The Applicability of Peacetime Environmental Law in International Armed Conflicts), forthcoming dissertation with English summary, ch. 3.