1st Edition
State Accountability for Environmental Damage in International Armed Conflict
1. General Context
2. State responsibility for environmental war damage under the law of armed conflict
3. State responsibility for environmental damage during occupation under the law of occupation
4. State responsibility under international environmental law for environmental damage in international armed conflict
5. Environment under war: Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon 2006
6. Environment under occupation: Occupied Palestinian Territory
7. In the aftermath of international armed conflicts
Biography
Aїda Tamer Chammas is an independent international law researcher. After graduating from University Paris II, Panthéon-Assas and further studies at the Fletcher School, Boston, she practiced as a finance lawyer in Paris, before moving to London in 1996. Her current research interests, developed during an LLM and PhD at the University of London, SOAS Law School, cover mainly international environmental law, the law of armed conflict including war and occupation and public international law issues. She was an alternate member of the International Law Association Committee on Participation in Global Cultural Heritage Governance between 2018 and 2022.
“This book is an important overview of both the history of international law as it applies to environmental damage during armed conflict, and the complexities of applying the existing international legal regime to increasingly complicated situations [...] As her final call to action emphasizes, “responsibility and reparation must be imposed” to address the long-lasting consequences of environmental damage"- Environmental Peacebuilding Association and Sage
