Book reviews

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Green Globe Yearbook of International Co‐operation on Environment and Development 1997 edited by Helge Ole Bergesen and George Parmann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp.368; index. £45. ISBN 0 19 823348 5

Global Environmental Change: An Integrated Modelling Approach by Michael Den Elzen, Utrecht: International Books, 1994. Pp. 253. £45 (paperback). ISBN 90 6224 987 6

International Environmental Affairs edited by Konrad von Moltke, Dartmouth College, USA. (Published quarterly by University Press of New England, Dartmouth College.) Subscription $50 per year (individuals), $85 (institutions; $10 extra for overseas subscriptions). ISSN 1041–4665 (only Vol.8, No.4, Fall 1997 and Vol.9, No.1, Winter 1997 are reviewed.)

Our Urban Future: New Paradigms for Equity and Sustainability by Akhtar A. Badshah. London: Zed Books, 1996. Pp.xii + 220; Index. £39.95 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 85649 405 5 and 406 3

El Niño and the Peruvian Anchovy Fishery by Edward Laws (Global Change Instruction Program Series) by Edward Laws. Sausalito, CA: University Science Press, 1997. Pp.xi + 58; index. $30. ISBN 0 935702 79 2

Sustainable Forest Management by Ian S. Ferguson. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 162; index. £32.50 (hardback). ISBN 0 19 553 604 5

Green Plans: Greenprint for Sustainability by Huey D. Johnson. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 202; index. £11.00 ($12.00). ISBN 0 8032 7596 X

In the Company of Partners: Business, Environmental Groups and Sustainable Development post‐Rio by David F. Murphy and Jem Bendell. Bristol: The Policy Press, 1997. Pp.xiv + 283; index. £15.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 86134 017 6

The Fiscal System and the Polluter Pays Principle: A Case Study of Ireland by Alan Barrett, John Lawlor and Sue Scott. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 1997. Pp.xii + 223. £37.50. ISBN 1 85926 380 X

Integrated Pollution Control: Change and Continuity in the UK Industrial Pollution Policy Network by Adrian Smith. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 1997. Pp.xv + 246; index. £39.95. ISBN 1 85972 597 X

Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties by George McKay. London: Verso, 1996. Pp.xiii + 210. £10 (paperback). ISBN 1 85984 028 0

Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600—1860 by Richard H. Grove (Studies in Environment and History Series). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 and 1996. Pp. xiv + 540; select bibliography; index. $69.95 (hardback); $19.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 521 40385 5 and 56513 8

The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses by John S. Dryzek. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii + 220; index. £40 (hardback); £13.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 19 8781601 and 8781598

Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status by David DeGrazia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp.x + 302; index. £40 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 521 56140 X and 0 56760 2

Environmental Aesthetics: Ideas, Politics and Planning by J. Douglas Porteous. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp.290; index. £14.95. ISBN 0 415 13770 5

Beyond Optimism: A Buddhist Political Ecology by Ken H Jones, foreword by J. Porritt. Charlbury, Oxford: Jon Carpenter Publishing, 1993. Pp.xi + 212; index. £9.99. ISBN 1 897766 06 8

In Pursuit of the Quality of Life edited by Avner Offer. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1996. Pp.viii + 302; index. £35. ISBN 0 19 8280025