Weapons Of War Environmental Impact

Author : Anonim
Publisher : KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789385714719

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Weapons of War: Environmental Impact by Anonim Pdf

The Indian Air Force, from a humble beginning in 1932 with 4 Wapiti aircraft, six Indian officers and 22 hawai sepoys, have traversed a long journey of eighty one years and crossed noteworthy milestones to become the fourth largest air force in the world. While facing several limitations/challenges, IAF have met all the national defence requirements, and made several strategic contributions. With growing economic interests and national aspirations, expanding interests well beyond our territorial boundaries and prevailing internal security challenges, India’s national defence requirements are also increasing. The first Gulf War was a monumental turning point in the war-time employment of aerospace power. Ever since significance of aerospace power in war, crisis and peace time has been gaining ascendency. Kosovo and Libya are the two pertinent examples of the allies virtually relying on aerospace power, without committing any soldiers on the ground. Scrutiny of the emerging global and national trends suggests that employment of the aerospace assets, as well as nation’s expectation from the IAF, will continue to rise. Alongside, there is an unplanned fall in flying platforms, weapon systems and pilot strength of the IAF. This study is an attempt to analyse the history of the IAF in war as well as ‘other than war operations’; to appreciate the emerging trends in geopolitics, aerospace technology and doctrine; and to identify the likely challenges IAF would be facing in the next two decades and beyond. Road map for transformation of the national security framework, indigenous aerospace industry and the IAF has also been suggested.

Author : Susan D. Lanier-Graham
Publisher : Walker & Company
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802712622

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The Ecology of War by Susan D. Lanier-Graham Pdf

Looks at the environmental impact of munitions testing, maneuvers, storage of chemical and biological weapons, nuclear testing, and nuclear-powered ships

Author : Jay E. Austin,Carl E. Bruch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521780209

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The Environmental Consequences of War by Jay E. Austin,Carl E. Bruch Pdf

The environmental devastation caused by military conflict has been witnessed in the wake of the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Kosovo conflict. This book brings together leading international lawyers, military officers, scientists and economists to examine the legal, political, economic and scientific implications of wartime damage to the natural environment and public health. The book considers issues raised by the application of humanitarian norms and legal rules designed to protect the environment, and the destructive nature of war. Contributors offer an analysis and critique of the existing law of war framework, lessons from peacetime environmental law, means of scientific assessment and economic valuation of ecological and public health damage, and proposals for future legal and institutional developments. This book provides a contemporary forum for interdisciplinary analysis of armed conflict and the environment, and explores ways to prevent and redress wartime environmental damage.

Author : Dr. U C Jha
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789382652816

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Armed Conflict and Environmental Damage by Dr. U C Jha Pdf

Armed conflict and military activities have serious adverse impacts on the environment. Modern weaponry, troop movements, landmines, hazardous military waste, and the destruction of forests for military use are a few sources of harm to the environment both during armed conflict and peacetime military activities. Ecological assaults in combat areas are often kept a secret by the government, resulting in even greater humanitarian and environmental harm. Environmental degradation is increasingly being recognized as one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century and its effects are being felt worldwide. Both domestic and international legislations have been inadequate in mitigating the impact of military activities. This book provides details of the environmental destruction wreaked during international and non-international armed conflicts and argues that the existing legal regime for the protection of the environment during armed conflict requires substantial modification. It puts forward the view that though it is inconceivable to impose an absolute ban on environmental damage during military operations, strengthening and clarifying the existing laws protecting the environment in times of conflict, and enforcing environment-friendly practices among military forces could go a long way in protecting natural assets of our earth.

Author : Sipri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000371451

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Warfare in a Fragile World by Sipri Pdf

This book, first published in 1980, examines the extent to which warfare and other military activities contribute to environmental degradation. The military capability to damage the environment has escalated. The military use and abuse of each of the several major global habitats – temperate, tropical, desert, arctic, insular and oceanic – are evaluated separately in the light of the civil use and abuse of that habitat.

Author : Charles E. Closmann
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1603441697

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War and the Environment by Charles E. Closmann Pdf

In recent times, the devastation occurring in places like Darfur has focused the world’s attention on the intertwined relationship of military conflict and the environment—and the attendant human suffering. In War and the Environment, eleven scholars explore, among other topics, the environmental ravages of trench warfare in World War I, the exploitation of Philippine forests for military purposes from the Spanish colonial period through 1945, William Tecumseh Sherman’s scorched-earth tactics during his 1864–65 March to the Sea, and the effects of wartime policy upon U.S. and German conservation practices during World War II.

Author : Edwin A. Martini
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295805948

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Proving Grounds by Edwin A. Martini Pdf

Proving Grounds brings together a wide range of scholars across disciplines and geographical borders to deepen our understanding of the environmental impact that the U.S. military presence has had at home and abroad. The essays in this collection survey the environmental damage caused by weapons testing and military bases to local residents, animal populations, and landscapes, and they examine the military’s efforts to close and repurpose bases—often as wildlife reserves. Together they present a complex and nuanced view that embraces the ironies, contradictions, and unintended consequences of U.S. militarism around the world. In complicating our understanding of the American military’s worldwide presence, the essayists also reveal the rare cases when the military is actually ahead of the curve on environmental regulation compared to the private sector. The result is the most comprehensive examination to date of the U.S. military’s environmental footprint—for better or worse—across the globe.

Author : Marc Bradshaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523909722

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The Environmental Impact of War by Marc Bradshaw Pdf

The progression of warfare from chemical weapons to nuclear weapons has increasingly created stress on ecosystems and the environment. Marc Bradshaw explores this important topic with his curated collection of articles and information. This edition focuses on the devastating effect that nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare has on the environment. Additionally, war & environmental law, the issue of storage and processing of depleted uranium, Agent Orange, Strontium 90, scorched earth, intentional flooding and much more is covered with this useful guide & resource.

Author : Sipri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000371468

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Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Environment by Sipri Pdf

The effects of weapons of mass destruction cannot be contained, either spatially or temporally, are unpredictable, discriminate poorly between combatants and civilians, and are highly disruptive of ecosystems. This book, first published in 1977, examines several WMD and analyses the extent and duration of environmental damage to be expected from them. Chapters are devoted to the ecological impacts of nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapons, and geophysical and environmental weapons.

Author : Julian Perry Robinson,United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038855859

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The Effects of Weapons on Ecosystems by Julian Perry Robinson,United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

Background and approach. Weapons. Ecosystems. Possible impacts of weapons on ecosystems.

Author : Tarek A. Kassim,Damià Barceló
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540879619

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Environmental Consequences of War and Aftermath by Tarek A. Kassim,Damià Barceló Pdf

and used in munitions. Rather the requirements for the agent’s military effects took precedence. In addition, the interaction among the political, technical, and legal challenges connected with the known or possible risks posed by CW agents is complex and sometimes not well understood. This is usually because technical considerations, when acted on, are almost invariably informed by political ones, such as various legal requirements. The book contains nine chapters covering different aspects of the research on environmental consequences of war and its aftermath and covers in one additional chapter more general issues such as prevention of war and its environmental c- sequences, the legal, political, and technical background to selected environmental and human health effects of CW agents, and the atmospheric transport and depo- tion of persistent organic pollutants under warfare conditions to more specific ones related to two main tragic examples: the war in the Balkans and the Gulf War. Aspects of the war in the Balkans cover contamination by heavy metals in Serbian national parks, the impact of NATO strikes on the Danube river basin, and the problems associated with transuranium elements. The Gulf War in Kuwait covers other problems related to the impact of oil contamination, the impact on grou- water resources, and the soil damage of ground fortifications among other envir- mental and health problems.

Author : Rosalie Bertell
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Military weapons
ISBN : 1551641828

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Planet Earth by Rosalie Bertell Pdf

As weaponry and warfare have become more complex and sophisticated, so the long-term effects have become more deadly. In Planet Earth Rosalie Bertell proposes that the key to understanding the impact of future wars lies in a close analysis of the past. She shows how the quest for military power has destabilized the delicate natural balance of the earth's ecosystem, causing widespread devastation in environmental, economic and social terms and calls for a new approach to security, which rises above national agendas to seek global solutions to a global problem.

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,Arthur H. Westing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037193468

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Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Environment by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,Arthur H. Westing Pdf

"This book describes several weapons of mass destruction and examines the extent and duration of environmental damage to be expected from them"--Jacket.

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011058420

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Explosive Remnants of War by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

Author : J. P. Robinson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483157481

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The Effects of Weapons on Ecosystems by J. P. Robinson Pdf

The Effects of Weapons on Ecosystems is a five-chapter book that describes the destruction of environment and its various ecosystems by humans. The book also explains the harmful effects, both intended and unanticipated, of the production, testing, stockpiling, and use of weapons of mass destruction. Organized into five chapters, the book begins with a classification of weapons of mass destruction and ecosystems. Subsequent chapter reviews the ecosystemic effects of weapons from data of ecological surveys of actual weapon test-sites and theaters of war. The book will clarify some outstanding issues on effects of weapons on ecosystems to concerned individuals, stimulate follow-up studies to advance the cause of disarmament and the protection of the environment, and lead to further action on these issues.