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18 - Colonialism, Environmental Injustice, and Sustainable Development

Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands

from Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2021

By
Antoni Pigrau
Edited by
Sumudu A. Atapattu ,
Carmen G. Gonzalez  and
Sara L. Seck
Sumudu A. Atapattu
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin School of Law
Carmen G. Gonzalez
Affiliation:
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Sara L. Seck
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University (Nova Scotia) Schulich School of Law
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Summary

The Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) is an archipelagic state in the Pacific Ocean consisting of five islands and twenty-nine atolls. These islands are inhabited by approximately 53,000 people.1 The islands were under the administration of different countries: Germany from 1885;2 Japan between 1919 and 1944;3 and the United States from 1944, during the final phase of World War II.4

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The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development , pp. 271 - 286
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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