Books received.

Neil Gunningham, Robert A. Kagan, and Dorothy Thornton. 1450 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304-1124: Stanford University Press, 2003. 210 pp. $21.95 Hardbound. $49.50 Cloth.

In Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and Environment, Neil Gunningham, Robert A. Kagan, and Dorothy Thornton study fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The study reveals that steadily tightening regulatory standards have been crucial for raising environmental performance. While all of the firms have shown improvement, some have improved more than others, going substantially beyond compliance. The authors assert that the variation is accounted for by the complex interaction between tightening regulations and a social license to operate especially pressures from community and environmental activists economic constraints, and differences in corporate environmental management style.

Neil Gunningham is a Professor in the School of Resources, Environment, and Society at the Australian National University. Robert A. Kagan is the Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society and Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Dorothy Thornton is a Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.

LINKING HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Edited by Romina Picolotti and Daniel Taillant. 355 S. Euclid #103, Tucson, Arizona 85719: The University of Arizona Press, 2003. 1-800-426-3797. 360 pp. $45.00 Cloth.

People in every nation are feeling the effects of ecosystem decline, from water shortages to landslides on deforested slopes to toxic neighborhoods. The victims often belong to vulnerable sectors of society--racial and ethnic minorities and the poor. Despite the clear links between environmental degradation, human suffering, and discrimination, governments and activists have historically treated human rights violations and environmental degradation as unrelated issues. Those focused on human rights regularly put civil and political rights first, while those focused on the environment rarely have addressed human impacts of environmental abuse. As a result, victims of environmental degradation have little, if any, protection and few defenders.

Linking Human Rights and the Environment demonstrates the growing interrelationship between human rights law and environmental advocacy. The book provides reviews of laws and treaties that established the rights to a healthy environment, an overview of mechanisms individuals and groups may use to remedy abuses, and specific case histories that document efforts to seek redress for victims of environmental degradation. Linking Human Rights and the Environment is a critical sourcebook for environmental justice issues that features important new work from an international roster of human rights and environmental experts.

Romina Picolotti and Daniel Talliant are cofounders of the Center for Human Rights and Environment, an Argentina-based nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable development by encouraging the symbiotic relationship existing between the environment and the people.

TRIBAL CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Darby C. Stapp and Michael S. Burney. Walnut Creek, California: Alta Mira Press, 2002. 1630 N. Main Street, Suite 367, Walnut Creek, California 94596. 208 pp. $70.00 Cloth. $24.95 Softbound.

The entrance of Native Americans into the world of cultural resource management is forcing a change in the traditional paradigms that have guided archaeologists, anthropologists, and other cultural resource management professionals. Tribal Cultural Resource Management examines these developments from tribal perspectives, and articulated native views on the identification of cultural resources, how they should be handled and by whom, and what their meaning is in contemporary life.

Darby C. Stapp is the Director of the Hanford Cultural Resource Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He works with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Nez Perce Tribe, and the Wanapum Band, and the Yakama Indian Reservation. Michael S. Burney, of Burney and Associates, was the tribal consulting archeologist for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and a former Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. For more than two decades, Michael S. Burney has worked as a consultant for the Oglala Sioux Nation, the Rosebud Lakota Sioux, the Cocopah Indian Tribe, and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY

James Salzman and Barton H. Thompson, Jr. New York, New York: Foundation Press, 2003. 395 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. 1877-888-1330. www.Foundation-Press.com. 305 pp.

Professors James Salzman and Barton H. Thompson, Jr., have written an accessible text that provides an overview of environmental law and policy in a concise, readable style, covering all the major environmental statutes. The result is Environmental Law and Policy, a stimulating, comprehensive, and user-friendly survey of this important field. Written to be read rather than used as a reference source, the book provides a broad conceptual overview of environmental law while also explaining the major statues and cases. Throughout the text, major policy debates are identified and explored in terms of effectiveness, equity, and alternatives. This book is intended for four audiences--students (both graduate and undergraduate) seeking a readable study guide for their environmental law and policy courses; professors who do not use casebooks, but want an integrating text for their courses or want to include conceptual materials on the major legal issues; and practicing lawyers and environmental professionals who want a concise, readable overview of the field.

Barton H. Thompson is the Vice Dean and Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law at Stanford Law School where he heads the University's Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for International Studies and a member of the executive committee of Stanford's Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources. Professor Thompson teaches courses in environmental law, water law, natural resources, and property. He has written numerous articles on water resources, biodiversity policy, fisheries management, constitutional issues in environmental law, and market and other alternative approaches to regulatory issues.