Books received.

DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Graham Smith. Taylor & Francis/Routeledge: Independence, Kentucky, 2003. 800-248-4724. 10650 Toebben Drive, Independence, Kentucky 41051. 163 pp. $27.95 Softbound.

In Deliberative Democracy and the Environment, Graham Smith argues that the enhancement and institutionalization of democratic deliberation will improve reflection on the wide range of environmental values that citizens hold. Contemporary democracies are frequently criticized for failing to respond adequately to environmental problems, and our political institutions are often charged with misrepresenting environmental values in decision-making processes. Drawing on theories of deliberative democracy, Smith argues that institutions need to be restructured in order to promote democratic dialogue and reflection on the plurality of environmental values.

Graham Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Southampton. He is the co-author of Politics and the Environment and has published a number of essays on democratic and green political theory.

GREENING NAFTA: THE NORTH AMERICAN COMMISSION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION

Edited by David Markell and John H. Knox. Stanford University Press: Palo Alto, California, 2003. 1450 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304-1124. 324 pp. $45.00 Hardbound.

In 1993, environmental objections to NAFTA resulted in the establishment of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the first international organization created to address issues related to trade and the environment. The CEC is also the first regional environmental agency in North America to possess innovative tools, almost unlimited jurisdiction, and unprecedented opportunities for participation of civil society at the international level.

Despite the CEC's importance to those interested in environmental protection, economic integration, and international policy, the CEC has received little scholarly attention to date. Greening NAFTA: The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation is intended to fill that gap by providing a comprehensive analysis of how the organization has fulfilled, or failed to fulfill, its mandates.

David L. Markell is the Steven M. Goldstein Professor of Law at the Florida State University College of Law. He served as the first Director of the CEC Secretariat's Submissions on Enforcement Matters Unit. John H. Knox is an Associate Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University. From 1988 to 1994, he served as an attorney-advisor at the U.S. State Department, where he participated in the negotiations that led to the creation of the CEC.

KEEPING FAITH WITH NATURE: ECOSYSTEMS, DEMOCRACY, AND AMERICA'S PUBLIC LANDS

Robert B. Keiter. The University Press: New Haven, Connecticut, 2003. 203-432-0163. The University Press, P.O. Box 209040, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-9040. [e-mail], www.yalebooks.com. 434 pp. $45.00 Hardbound.

Keeping Faith with Nature: Ecosystems, Democracy, and America's Public Lands is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of public lands policy that focuses on the connections among diverse landscapes, resources, agencies, and communities of the western landscape. Robert B. Keiter chronicles and analyzes the changes that caused us to view our public lands as an integrated entity and a key factor in maintaining biological diversity. Keiter also examines the institutional forces regulating those changes and offers thoughts on what the future may hold. Keeping Faith with Nature focuses on key controversies that have shaped the ecological management movement, including the Pacific Northwest's spotted owl controversy, the Yellowstone wolf reintroduction, fire as an agent of ecological change, the transformation of southern Utah's Colorado plateau, and the Quincy Library Group's forest management initiative.

Robert B. Keiter is the Wallace Stegner Professor of Law and director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law. He is also the co-editor of The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Redefining America's Wilderness Heritage, published by Yale University Press. A trustee of the National Parks Conservation Association and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, he speaks frequently to professional, agency, and nongovernmental groups on public land law and policy.

INSTITUTIONALIZING INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Bharat Desai. Transnational Publishers, Inc.: Ardsley, New York, 2003. 914-693-5100. 914-693-4430 (fax). 410 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley, New York 10502. 391 pp. $155.00 Hardbound.

Institutionalizing International Environmental Law is a study of the lawmaking process and the linkage between international environmental law and international environmental institutions. In Institutionalizing International Environmental Law, Bharat H. Desai shows that international institution building is an organic process directly geared to the needs of states. He underscores the fact of international life that institutions are essentially tools, operating within legal parameters, for states to address global problems. While international environmental institutions are the result of the need for international cooperation, they acquire their own momentum in catalyzing international environmental law once they have been set up. They are a product as well as a contributor to the development of international environmental law.

Bharat H. Desai is an Associate Professor in the International Legal Studies Division, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.

BOUNDARIES: A CASEBOOK IN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Christine E. Gudorf and James E. Huchingson. Georgetown University Press: Washington, D.C., 2003. 3240 Prospect Street NW, Washington, D.C., 20007. 202-687-5889. www.press.georgetown.edu. 264 pp. $26.95 Softbound.

Boundaries: A Casebook in Environmental Ethics identifies three different kinds of boundaries involved in environmental ethics by examining technological developments: boundaries between the fields of ethics, boundaries between humans and the rest of the environment, and boundaries between what is and what could or should be in the environment. The authors believe that the casebook will provide an exciting opportunity for students and instructors to participate in a social project of conceptualizing the human place in the environment.

Christine E. Gudolf is a professor of religions studies at Florida International University, coauthor of Christian Ethics: A Case Method Approach, and author of Body, Sex, and Pleasure: Reconstructing Christian Sexual Ethics. James E. Huchingson is a professor of religious studies at Florida International University, editor of Religion and the Natural Sciences: The Range of Engagement, and author of Pandemonium Tremendum: Chaos and Mystery in the Life of God.

THE PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Edited by Rosemary O'Leary and Lisa Bingham. RFF Press: Washington, D.C., 2003. 1616 P Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. [e-mail]. www.rffpress.org. 368 pp. $70.00 Hardback. $34.95 Paperback.

Environmental Conflict Resolution (ECR) is being extended to almost every area of environmental policy. The Promise and Performance of Environmental Conflict Resolution is the first book to systematically evaluate the results of these efforts. Rosemary O'Leary and Lisa Bingham argue that truly effective use of ECR requires something more than advocacy, and provide scholars, policy makers, students, and practitioners with critical assessments to enable them to use it to its best advantage.

Rosemary O'Leary and Lisa B. Bingham are cofounders of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute at Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Rosemary O'Leary is currently a professor of public administration and political science and coordinator of the Ph.D. program in public administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration, she was recently a senior Fulbright scholar conducting research on environmental policy in Malaysia. She has worked as an environmental attorney, a consultant to state and federal agencies, and as Director of Policy and Planning for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. O'Leary co-authored Managing for the Environment: Understanding the Legal, Organizational, and Policy Changes, winner of the Academy of Management's Best Book in Public and Nonprofit Management in 2000 and the American Society for Public Administration's Best Book in Environmental Management and Policy in 1999.

Lisa B. Bingham is the Keller-Runden Chair in Public Service and director of the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. After practicing labor and employment law and becoming a partner in the law firm of Shipman and Goodwin, Bingham joined the faculty of Indiana University in 1989. In 1992, she joined the School of Public and Environmental Affairs faculty. Bingham is the director of the National REDRESS Evaluation Project for the United States Postal Service. In 2002, she received the Association for Conflict Resolution's Willoughby Abner Award for excellence in research on dispute resolution.