%0 Journal Article 
%A Nihreieva, Olena
%T Protection of the environment under occupation: Scope and content of legal obligations of the occupier
%D 2024
%@ 2411-2054
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/40347
%X The article is dedicated to the problem of the protection of the environment on occupied
territories. Due to the fact that the law of occupation doesn’t contain legal rules establishing
environmental obligations of the occupying power, the environment on the territories under its
authority often becomes a victim of the overexploitation and destruction. At the same time, it is
suggested that the current international law, in particular, international human rights law and international
environmental law, can be used to fill gaps in the rules of international humanitarian
law. Certainly, the scope and the content of occupier’s obligations will be different depending
on the instruments applied for the protection of the environment. The author concludes that the
occupying state may be bound by its own multilateral environmental agreements, multilateral
environmental agreements of the state which territory is occupied or both groups of treaties. A
case-by-case approach to environmental human rights protection can serve as a useful tool for
the concretization of occupier’s environmental obligations.
%K occupation
%K protection of the environment
%K occupying power
%K international armed conflict
%K human rights
%K the Kakhovka dam
%K law of occupation
%K international humanitarian law
%K international environmental law
%K international human rights law
%~ Universidad de Cádiz