All Outputs (20)

Sustainable development and environmental peacebuilding (2023)
Book Chapter

In the face of various post-conflict challenges and conflicting priorities, it is tempting in the short term to dismiss environmental issues or setting them aside for later. However, taking this stance is short sighted as bringing in natural resource... Read More about Sustainable development and environmental peacebuilding.

Protecting the environment during multinational military operations (2019)
Book Chapter

The chapter examines issues concerning the protection of the environment during multinational military operations. Taking into consideration the International Law Commission’s (ILC) recent work regarding the protection of the environment in relation... Read More about Protecting the environment during multinational military operations.

Private security companies and other private security providers (PSCs) and environmental protection in jus post bellum: Policy and regulatory challenges (2017)
Book Chapter

A challenge to environmental protection and the jus post bellum framework is the rise in Private Security Companies and other Private Security Service Providers (PSCs). The marked increase in the outsourcing of vast amount of operational and logistic... Read More about Private security companies and other private security providers (PSCs) and environmental protection in jus post bellum: Policy and regulatory challenges.

Natural resources, conflict and investment: Conflict minerals in the democratic republic of Congo and the challenges to sustainable investment (2017)
Book Chapter

‘Since 1990, at least 18 violent conflicts have been fuelled by the exploitation of natural resources such as timber, minerals, oil and gas. Sometimes this is caused by environmental damage and the marginalization of local populations who fail to be... Read More about Natural resources, conflict and investment: Conflict minerals in the democratic republic of Congo and the challenges to sustainable investment.

'Climate change and armed conflict: Challenges and opportunities for maintaining international peace and security through climate justice' (2016)
Book Chapter

According to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, “[c]limate change not only exacerbates threats to international peace and security, it is a threat to international peace and security.” Scientific forecasts have determined that climate change causes di... Read More about 'Climate change and armed conflict: Challenges and opportunities for maintaining international peace and security through climate justice'.

Land grabbing, sustainable development and human rights (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Cambridge University Press. Increasing investment in agricultural land by global corporations and investors from wealthy developed nations in poorer, less developed countries has significant human rights and environmental impacts. Proponents o... Read More about Land grabbing, sustainable development and human rights.

Climate change, the environment and armed conflict (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper

Toxic remnants of war and private military security contractors – Environmental protection in post-conflict settings: Policy and regulatory challenges (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

11 and 12 June 2014 at Leiden University – Faculty Campus The Hague in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Land grabbing: New challenges for food security and the environment (2014)
Book Chapter

Environmental protection in armed conflict: filling the gaps with sustainable development (2014)
Book Chapter

Environmental protection in armed conflict: Filling the gaps with sustainable development (2013)
Journal Article

Recent years have witnessed growing concern over the ever more increasing urgent and pervasive global environmental problems. Environmental problems and challenges in relation to armed conflict are amongst them. Such environmental pressures can cause... Read More about Environmental protection in armed conflict: Filling the gaps with sustainable development.

Land grabbing: New challenges for food security and the environment (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Agriculture, food security and the environment: Policy and regulatory challenges (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sustainable development and environmental protection in armed conflict (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Privacy in the UK, privacy in the US: Can we learn anything from each other? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper considers the development of the “right to privacy” in the UK and US with the aim of: eliciting the definition and protection of privacy; its challenges; and, determining whether lessons can be learnt for each jurisdiction from one another Read More about Privacy in the UK, privacy in the US: Can we learn anything from each other?.

Environmental protection, security and armed conflict: A sustainable development perspective (2013)
Book

'Environmental Protection, Security and Armed Conflict is a timely reminder of the need to integrate sustainable development into key areas of international law, including all phases of armed conflict. Onita Das cleverly picks her way through the app... Read More about Environmental protection, security and armed conflict: A sustainable development perspective.

International protection of environmental refugees (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

UNEP in its 2009 Conflict to Peacebuilding Review reports that at least eighteen violent conflicts have been fuelled by environmental degradation or natural resource exploitation or both since 1990 and that at least 40 percent of all intrastate confl... Read More about International protection of environmental refugees.

Environmental protection in times of armed conflict: A new convention or protocol (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The impact of armed conflict on sustainable development: A holistic approach (2010)
Book Chapter

While a more traditional approach to international law and armed conflict focuses on the use of force and international humanitarian law, this book incorporates other international legal regimes such as human rights law, international private law, in... Read More about The impact of armed conflict on sustainable development: A holistic approach.

Climate change, the environment and armed conflict (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution