Both gender and the environment have traditionally been positioned at the periphery of international humanitarian law (IHL). In recent decades, there has been important progress in moving both concerns closer to its centre; to date, however, an understanding of the intersection of gender and the environment in the legal regulation of armed conflict remains largely underdeveloped. Nevertheless, as the present article documents, there are important similarities in strategies pursued to advance both gender and the environment from the periphery to the mainstream of IHL, namely: first, a focus on sources of IHL, in particular concretizing arguably limited specific treaty content with interpretive guidance and implementation frameworks; second, a conceptual critique of prevailing definitions of “harm” in IHL; and third, advancing, through close empirical documentation and household-level analysis of conflict's effects, understandings of harm that capture so-called “second-round” effects of conflict. Recognizing these important affinities between gender and environment work in IHL, this article draws on these insights to propose a typology of gendered environmental harm in conflict. The article concludes with proposals for enhancing the legal and operational capture under IHL of the gender–conflict–environment nexus.

传统上，性别和环境都处于国际人道法（IHL）的边缘。近几十年来，在使这两个问题更接近其核心方面取得了重要进展。然而，迄今为止，人们对武装冲突法律规制中性别与环境交叉点的认识仍然很不充分。然而，正如本文所述，将性别和环境问题从国际人道法的边缘推向主流所采取的战略有重要的相似之处，即：首先，注重国际人道法的渊源，特别是将可能有限的具体条约内容具体化具有解释性指导和实施框架；其次，对国际人道法中“伤害”的流行定义进行概念批判；第三，通过密切的实证记录和对冲突影响的家庭层面分析，推进对冲突的所谓“第二轮”影响的伤害的理解。认识到国际人道法中性别与环境工作之间的重要关联性，本文借鉴这些见解，提出了冲突中性别环境损害的类型学。文章最后提出了加强国际人道法下对性别-冲突-环境关系的法律和行动捕捉的建议。