Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission (eBook, PDF)

Environmental Liability
Redaktion: Payne, Cymie; Sand, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission: Environmental Liability, experts who held leadership positions and worked directly with the UNCC draw on their experience with the institution and provide a comprehensive view of the United Nations Compensation Comission and its work in the aftermath of the Gulf War. In this volume, the first of two on the UNCC's work, the authors explain that the United Nations Security Council established the ad hoc compensation commission to address reparations as a component of the ceasefire following Iraq's 1990-91 invasion and occupation of Kuwait. The authors also describe how the work of the United Nations Compensation Commission addressed important questions of state responsibility, environmental liability, mass claims processing, international law, and dispute settlement institutions in the post-armed conflict context. Readers will also learn that the scope and the scale of the UNCC was extraordinary, since almost 2.7 million claims from 80-plus countries were submitted to the Commission (which awarded in excess of $55 billion and has paid out more than half of that total), and that this led to the development of innovative procedural, institutional and managerial approaches in handling mass, environmental, and corporate claims at a scale that is unparalleled. Additionally, the books note that the Commission also contributed to the evolution of international jurisprudence in these areas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199875764
• Artikelnr.: 40175379

Autorenporträt

Cymie R. Payne was a senior lawyer with the UNCC's environmental claims program from 1999-2005. She is a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law where she was also Director of the Global Commons Project and Associate Director of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment. Ms. Payne practiced law with the US Department of the Interior in Washington, DC, and the firm of Goodwin, Procter, LLP in Boston. She is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and a member of the bars of California and Massachusetts. Peter H. Sand is a lecturer in international environmental law at the Faculty of Law, University of Munich, Germany; formerly Associate Professor of Law at McGill University Montreal, Canada. Before serving as UNCC Commissioner on the F4 Panel in 1999-2005, he held a number of international positions, including Senior Legal Officer of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Assistant Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Chief of the Environmental Law Unit of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and Legal Adviser for Environmental Affairs of the World Bank.

Inhaltsangabe

* ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
* CONTRIBUTORS BIOS
* MAP
* FOREWORD (T.A. Mensah)
* Chapter 1 The UNCC Program: Environmental Claims in Context (C.R.
Payne)
* Part I. Claims Preparation and Review
* Chapter 2 The Process (J.E. Klee)
* Chapter 3 Assessment and Valuation of Damage to the Environment (M.T.
Huguenin, M.C. Donlan, A. van Geel, R.W. Paterson)
* Chapter 4 Scientific and Technical Advice: The Perspective of Iraq's
Experts (L. Wilde)
* Chapter 5 Tracking and Follow-Up Programmes for Environmental Awards
(C.R.Payne)
* Part II. Jurisprudence and Policy Issues
* Chapter 6 Points of Law (J.R. Allen)
* Chapter 7 Environmental Principles Applied (P.H. Sand)
* Chapter 8 Public Health Claims (P.H. Sand, J.K. Hammitt)
* Part III. Looking to the Future
* Chapter 9 Institutionalizing Peacebuilding: The UNCC, Conflict
Resources, and the Future of Natural Resources in Transitional
Justice (C. Bruch, A. Fishman)
* Chapter 10 The UNCC as a Model for Climate Change Compensation (D.A.
Farber)
* Chapter 11 Liability for Environmental Damages: Toward Principles of
Sustainable Governance (R. Costanza)
* Chapter 12 The Profound Significance of the UNCC for the Environment
(D.D. Caron)
* APPENDICES
* Guidance for Researchers (C.R. Payne)
* Bibliography (articles and books)
* Basic documents
* - Security Council resolution 687
* - Governing Council decision 7, Criteria for Additional Categories of
Claims
* - Governing Council decision 10, Procedural Rules
* - Governing Council decision 124, Arrangement to Provide Technical
Assistance to Iraq in Respect of Environmental Claims
* - Governing Council decision 258, Follow-up Programme for
Environmental Claims Awards
* - UNCC solicitation for consulting services, 1999
* INDEX