Environmental Warfare: A Technical, Legal and Policy Appraisal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Author(s): Arthur H. Westing
Date: 1984
Environmental Warfare is a comprehensive book for all those concerned with environmental questions. It also makes a timely contribution to the first review conference of the Enmod Convention.
Environmental warfare, or the manipulation of the environment for hostile military purposes, is prohibited by the 1977 Convention on the Prohibition of Military or any other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques. This Convention, known as the 'Enmod Convention', is critically analysed here. No matter how remote many aspects of such exploitation of the environment may seem at the moment, the techniques must be understood if we are to be watchful. There are many things the military can do now which were inconceivable 50 years ago. Environmental Warfare is an outgrowth of a symposium convened in April 1984 by SIPRI together with UNIDIR (the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research) and in co-operation with UNEP (the United Nations Environmental Programme).