Journal of Environment & Development articles from September 1998

Journal of Environment & Development archives from September 1998

In search of pollution havens? Dirty industry in the world economy, 1960-1995.
September 1, 1998... The past three decades have witnessed rapid economic development, particularly in countries that have pursued relatively open economic policies. Rising environmental awareness in the 1960s also led to a rapid tightening of pollution regulation...

The Russian trade-off: environment and development in the Caspian Sea.
September 1, 1998... The Caspian Sea embodies one of the crucial tensions of international politics. On one hand, its vast deposits of oil and gas beckon political elites and multinational corporations to compete for resource development projects. On the other...

Freshwater use, freshwater scarcity, and socioeconomic development.
September 1, 1998... Several influential studies suggest that population and income growth lead to increasing demands for freshwater and freshwater scarcity. Unfortunately, there is little rigorous empirical testing of this hypothesis. This article relies on a...

Tilting the Balance: Climate Variability and Water Resource Management in the Southwest. (United States)
September 1, 1998... This conference--held on March 2 through 4, 1998, at the University of Texas at El Paso--was billed as a discussion of how to respond to global climate change in the Southwest and not as a debate on whether climate change exists. The stated...

The National Hispanic Sustainable Energy and Environmental Conference.
September 1, 1998... This conference--held in Oakland, California on March 15 through 17--was primarily a way for many young students pursuing various types of environmental studies to be introduced to the many opportunities ahead of them. The organizer, the...

Annual Meeting on the Border Environnment/Encuentro Anual Sobre El Ambiente Fronterizo. (United States-Mexico border)
September 1, 1998... The U.S.-Mexico border region constitutes the most populous and rapidly growing region of North America. The population in 1960 was I million; today it is more than 11.5 million. As a result of significant migration to the border from both...

Sharing the Earth: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development.
September 1, 1998... Sharing the Earth: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development by Tarla Rai Peterson. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. 238 pp., appendixes, bibliography, and index, U.S. $29.95 (hard cover). (ISBN 1-57003-173-8) It has been...

The Earth Summit at Rio: Politics, Economics and the Environment.
September 1, 1998... The Earth Summit at Rio: Politics, Economics and the Environment by Ranee K. L. Panjabi. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997. 392 pp., five appendixes and index, U.S. $50.00. (ISBN 1-55553-283-7) This, quite simply, is an excellent...

Building a Foundation for Sound Environmental Decisions.
September 1, 1998... Building a Foundation for Sound Environmental Decisions by the National Research Council. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997. 87 pp., U.S. $29.00. (ISBN 0-309-05795-7) The findings published in this report are the combined...

Global Governance: Learning from the Environmental Experience.
September 1, 1998... Global Governance: Learning From the Environmental Experience edited by Oran R. Young. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. 348 pp., U.S. $22.50. (ISBN 0-262-74020-6) Katie McGinty, the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, has...

The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses.
September 1, 1998... The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses by John S. Dryzek. Oxford University Press, 1997. 220 pp., U.S. $19.95. (ISBN 0-19-878159-8) In The Politics of the Earth, John Dryzek attempts to interpret different perspectives on...