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Environment 92 Number 879 September 2010 Volume Volume 92 Number 879 September 2010 Volume 92 Number 879 September 2010 Interview with Achim Steiner Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Under-Secretary General, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi Climate change and its impacts: growing stress factors for human societies Martin Beniston International law protecting the environment during armed conflict: gaps and opportunities Michael Bothe, Carl Bruch, Jordan Diamond, and David Jensen Law-making at the intersection of international environmental, humanitarian and criminal law: the issue of damage to the environment in international armed conflict Julian Wyatt Water, international peace, and security Mara Tignino Taking care to protect the environment against damage: a meaningless obligation? Karen Hulme Climate change adaptation: integrating climate science into humanitarian work Lisette M. Braman, Pablo Suarez and Maarten K. van Aalst Climate change, natural disasters and displacement: Environment a multi-track approach to filling the protection gaps Vikram Kolmannskog and Lisetta Trebbi Collective reparation for victims of armed conflict Friedrich Rosenfeld www.icrc.org/eng/review Humanitarian debate: Law, policy, action Cambridge Journals Online For further information about this journal please go to the journal web site at: ISSN 1816-3831 http://www.journals.cambridge.org/irc Environment Editorial Team Editor-in-Chief: Toni Pfanner The Review is printed in English and is Editorial assistant: Michael Siegrist published four times a year, in March, Publication assistant: June, September and December. Claire Franc Abbas Annual selections of articles are also International Review of the Red Cross published on a regional level in Arabic, Aim and scope 19, Avenue de la Paix Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. 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