Verifying Treaty Compliance Limiting Weapons of Mass Destruction and Monitoring Kyoto Protocol Provisions /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Avenhaus, Rudolf (Editor), Kyriakopoulos, Nicholas (Editor), Richard, Michel (Editor), Stein, Gotthard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Law.; Law of the sea.; International law.; Nuclear engineering.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space.; Nuclear Engineering.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.

International treaties requiring binding commitments on the part of the member states and appropriate compliance verification by an international authority constitute a primary assurance against risks posed by the spread of sensitive technologies that can be used to produce weapons of mass destructi...

Table of Contents:

• Conceptual Framework
• Conceptual Framework
• Treaties and their Requirements
• Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Treaties: An Ontology of Concepts and Characteristics
• International Atomic Energy Agency Safeguards under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Challenges in Implementation
• Verification under the Chemical Weapons Convention
• Biological Weapons Convention
• Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Verification
• Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe
• Developing the Climate Change Regime: The Role of Verification
• Field Experience
• Experience and Challenges in Weapons of Mass Destruction Treaty Verification: A Comparative View
• A Concrete Experience: The Iraq Case
• Beyond Iraq: The New Challenges to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Regime
• Formal Models of Verification
• Formal Models of Verification
• Systems and Linkages - Crosscutting
• Civil Reconnaissance Satellites: Opportunities and Challenges
• Change Detection: The Potential for Nuclear Safeguards
• Aspects of Networking: Experience from Global Monitoring for Security and Stability
• Environmental Sample Analysis
• Tracing the Origin of Diverted or Stolen Nuclear Material through Nuclear Forensic Investigations
• Information Collection and Analysis
• The Information Infrastructure of a Treaty Monitoring System
• The International Level
• Open Source Information Collection, Processing and Applications
• The National Level
• Emerging Verification Technologies
• Advanced Sensor Technologies
• Monitoring Reactors with Cubic Meter Scale Antineutrino Detectors
• Digital Verification Techniques in the Nuclear Safeguards System: Status and Perspectives
• Emerging Verification Technologies
• A Sustainable Approach for Developing Treaty Enforcement Instrumentation
• Perspectives and Conclusions
• Continuity and Change in International Verification Regimes
• Improving Verification: Trends and Perspectives for Research
• Concluding Remarks.