Environments articles from January 2001

Environments archives from January 2001

Trade policy, open regionalism and NAFTA: the socio-economic context for Japanese automobile investments in North America.
January 1, 2001... Abstract This paper examines the investment strategies of Japanese automakers in the context of evolving U.S. and Canadian trade policy. The trade imbalance and trade disputes between the United States and Japan set the policy context. In...

Strategic options for Japanese automakers operating in NAFTA.
January 1, 2001... Abstract Japanese automakers are in the position of having a strong manufacturing and sales presence worldwide, yet find themselves struggling at home due to the prolonged downturn in local economic conditions. The strength of the North...

Mutual adaptation: Japanese automobile transplants in North America and the restructuring of buyer-supplier relations.
January 1, 2001... Abstract This paper examines how the arrival and expansion of Japanese automotive assemblers in North America during the 1980s and 1990s, has been characterized by a complex process of mutual adaptation by both the transplant assemblers...

Climate for change: non-state actors and the global politics of the greenhouse.
January 1, 2001... Climate for Change: Non-State Actors and the Global Politics of the Greenhouse Peter Newell. 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 0-521-63250-1 (hc) $107.95 (Cdn.). Global climate change continues to be one of the...

Tourism and national parks: issues and implications.
January 1, 2001... Tourism and National Parks: Issues and Implications Richard W. Butler & Stephen W. Boyd, eds. 2000. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. ISBN 0-471-98894-4 (hc) $142.50 (Cdn.). 342 pp. Although it is an edited volume, Tourism and National...

Introduction to sustainable development, 2nd ed.
January 1, 2001... An Introduction to Sustainable Development, 2nd Ed. Jennifer Elliott. 1999. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-19150-5 (cloth); 0-415-19151-3 (paper) $31.99 (Cdn.). 215 pp. This book is part of Routledge's "Introduction to Development...

Social marketing of the Residential Energy Efficiency Project: effective community implementation of a national program.
January 1, 2001... Abstract Marketing new environmental projects to a community can be challenging and expensive. Learning how to effectively reach individual households is an important way to help build more sustainable communities. Residential energy...

Ready to go green?: the prospects for premium-priced green electricity in Waterloo Region, Ontario.
January 1, 2001... Abstract: In Ontario, electricity industry restructuring and growing air quality concerns mean that the prospects for `green electricity' (that is, electricity generated by environmentally-friendlier means) are greater now than they have...

Strategies for a softer, more sustainable, residential energy path.
January 1, 2001... Abstract The purpose of this article is to contribute to the discussion about how a community's energy future could be made more sustainable. To increase residential energy efficiency and to move residential energy supply from less- to...

Ecology of freshwater molluscs.
January 1, 2001... The Ecology of Freshwater Molluscs R.T. Dillon. 2000. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 509 pages. Hardcover ISBN 0-521-35210-X. US$120.00. Reviewed by L.E.J. Lee, Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo,...

Natural resource valuation and policy in Brazil: methods and cases.
January 1, 2001... Natural Resource Valuation and Policy in Brazil: Methods and Cases Peter. H. May, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0-231-10826-5 cloth/0-231-10827-3 paper, US$55.00/$28.00. 352 pp. Reviewed by Mary Louise McAllister,...

Living planet in crisis: biodiversity science and policy.
January 1, 2001... The Living Planet in Crisis: Biodiversity Science and Policy Joel Cracraft and Francesca T. Grifo (editors) Columbia University Press, New York. 1999. 0-231-10865-6 (pbk) $36.55 (pbk). Reviewed by Nina-Marie Lister, Assistant Professor,...