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Graduate co-authors environmental law book
Written by Jo Baker   
Sunday, 20 September 2009

Graduate Joanne Baker has co-authored an environmental law book, which grew out of her MSc dissertation in 2002. Uranium in Iraq: The Poisonous Legacy of the Iraq Wars is available from Vandeplas Publishing. From the publisher's website:

This book has been written out of concerns surrounding the changing health patterns in Iraq since 1991 and, in particular, the increase in cancers and genetic birth defects amongst children. The subject is fraught with difficulty because of the uncertain nature of both cause and effect. The combination of war and sanctions in Iraq over several decades has created a highly toxic environment, and resistance to disease has become severely compromised by malnutrition, polluted water systems, psychological distress, and a failing health system. This book, however, works on the supposition that the military use of uranium has the potential to be a serious contributing factor to the illnesses besetting the Iraqi population. The book outlines environmental problems and legal implications of the contamination of Iraq due to the use of depleted uranium in military weapons used during the Gulf Wars.

 
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