Environmental Law Institute

Publications

Carl Bruch, Closing Remarks: The International Responses to the Environmental Impacts of War, 17 Geo. Int’l Envtl. L. Rev. 643 (2005).

Jay E. Austin & Carl E. Bruch, Legal Mechanisms for Addressing Wartime Damage to Tropical Forests, 16(3/4) J. Sustainable Forestry 167 (2003), reprinted in Steven V. Price (ed.), War and Tropical Forests: Conservation in Areas of Armed Conflict 167 (2003).

Carl E. Bruch, All’s Not Fair in (Civil) War: Criminal Liability for Environmental Damage from Internal Armed Conflicts, 25 Vt. L. Rev. 695 (2001).

Jay E. Austin & Carl E. Bruch (eds.), The Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic, and Scientific Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Carl E. Bruch & Jay Austin, The 1999 Kosovo Conflict: Unresolved Issues in Addressing the Environmental Consequences of War, 30 Environmental Law Reporter 10069 (2000), excerpted in David Hunter et al. International Environmental Law and Policy 1397-1400 (2d ed. 2002).

Carl E. Bruch, An Overview of Legal Mechanisms for Conserving Biodiversity During Armed Conflict, in Esther Blom et al. (eds.), Nature in War: Biodiversity Conservation during Conflicts 141 (Netherlands Commission for International Nature Protection, 2000).

Annotated Bibliography , First International Conference on Addressing Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic, and Scientific Perspectives (Washington, DC: Environmental Law Institute, 1998).

Addressing Environmental Consequences of War (Washington, DC: Environmental Law Institute, 1998) (Background Paper for the First International Conference on Addressing Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic, and Scientific Perspectives).

Deborah Sandler, et al. (eds.), Protecting the Gulf of Aqaba: A Regional Environmental Challenge (ELI, 1993).

The ELI Armed Conflict and the Environment Program works with partners worldwide to better manage natural resources and the environment both during and after armed conflict. We strive to protect people and ecosystems by strengthening laws, policies, and institutions that:

effectively manage the natural resources that fuel armed conflict;
prevent, mitigate, and redress the environmental consequences of war; and
facilitate the transition of post-conflict societies/countries to peace through improved natural resource management.

Program News

Second Experts’ Meeting on Managing Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Societies (February 2008)

Assessing the Legal, Scientific, and Institutional Frameworks to Sustainably Manage Biodiversity in Post-Conflict Liberia

Brown Bag Lunch on Minerals, Timber, and Conflict in the Congo (September 2007)

Managing Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Societies (September 2007)