A Method to Determine Ecocide from a Landscape Perspective: The Nova Kakhovka Dam Case in the Russia-Ukraine War
Description
Focusing on the ongoing war in Ukraine as a case study, this project intends to create a method capable of determining whether ecocide events occur — a potential crime prosecutable by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The project considers data collection and its gaps, expressing and scaling ecocide through mapping, and quantification of severity informed by ecological and crises theory. The testing of the method also calls for adjustments in the legal ecocide proposals to make the case to adopt ecocide to the Rome Statute stronger and more relevant to the scope of ecocide. While centered on Ukraine, the methodology is designed for global applicability in various conflict situations.