Comparative Asian Environmental Law Anthology.

COMPARATIVE ASIAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ANTHOLOGY

Alexander J. Bolla & Ted L. McDorman. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2000. [phone]. 557 pp.

This anthology presents readings on environmental law and policy that helps focus the reader on the deep legal heritage, culture, and traditions of selected Asian nations, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, and the nations of Southeast Asia The anthology also includes the United States for a comparative study, and to represent a benchmark nation from which many other's have borrowed. The readings begin with materials foundational to comparative law as a discipline, and end with current discussions on trade and the environment. The anthology attempts to highlight the influences of Western legal culture on indigenous approaches used by Asian nations struggling to sustain, govern, and responsibly use the environment.

Alexander J. Bolla is a Professor of Law at Cumberland School of Law of Stamford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He teaches contracts, computer law, business and document drafting, comparative Asian systems, international trade, admiralty and maritime law. Mr. Bolla is currently the Chair-Elect of the American Association of Law Schools section on Maritime Law. Ted L. McDorman is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia Mr. McDorman, Editor-in-Chief of Ocean Development and International Law: the Journal of Marine Affairs, has written extensively in the areas of international ocean law and policy, international trade law, and Asian law.

OCEAN'S END: TRAVELS THROUGH ENDANGERED SEAS

Colin Woodard. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000. [phone]. 300 pp.$26.00 Clothbound.

The Ocean's End is an eyewitness account of the state of the world's oceans and a subsequent call to action. The author spent over a year and a half sailing the world's oceans and now tells of his interactions with fishermen and scientists, officials and activists, dicers and sailors, as well as religious missionaries and government ministers whose lives are spent confronting the ocean's problems.

Colin Woodard is a journalist specializing in global affairs and is a regular contributor TO the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

THE REDWOOD FORREST: HISTORY, ECOLOGY, AND CONSERVATION OF THE COAST REDWOODS

Reed F. Noss ed. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000. [phone]. 339 pp. $30.00 Paperbound.

Written in support of Save-the-Redwoods League's master plan, The Redwood Forrest assembles the latest insights from conservation biology along with new information from data-gathering techniques, such as GIS and remote sensing. The book presents current findings on the geologic and cultural history, natural history, ecology, management, and conservation of the flora and fauna of the redwood ecosystem. The Redwood Forrest offers a case study for ecosystem level conservation and contains recent information on topics like redwood canopy communities, the role of fog in sustaining redwood forests, and the function of redwood burls.

Reed F. Noss is chief scientist with the Conservation Biology Institute, a consultant on biodiversity issues, former editor of Conservation Biology, science editor for Wild Earth magazine, and president of the Society for Conservation Biology. Mr. Noss has authored over 150 publications and is now engaged largely in conservation planning on regional and broader scales.

FRESHWATER ECOREGIONS OF NORTH AMERICA: A CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT

Robin A. Abell, David M. Olson, Eric Dinerstein, Patrick T. Hurley Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000. [phone]. 319 pp.

North America's freshwater habitats and the extraordinary biodiversity they contain are facing unprecedented threats from a range of sources, including flow alteration, habitat fragmentations, introduced species, and overall land use changes. With nearly every freshwater system suffering from some degree of degradation and conservation resources limited, there is an urgent and practical need to set priorities. The World Wildlife Fund assembled a team of leading scientists to conduct a conservation assessment of freshwater ecoregions as an initial step in identifying the areas where protective and restorative measures should be implemented first. Freshwater Ecoregions of North America presents this an assessment and outlines measures that must be taken to conserve, and in many cases restore, native biodiversity.

The authors are affiliated with the Conservation Science Program of World Wildlife Fund.

PLANNING SUSTAINABILITY

Edited by Michael Kenny and James Meadowcroft. New York, NY: Routledge, 1999. [phone]. 230 pp. $90.00 Clothbound, $29.99 Paperbound.

Planning Sustainability explores the relationship between environmental sustainability and planning. The authors, leading scholars in the field of environmental politics, explore the different implications of sustainability for public planning in the industrialized world. In arguing that that planning is often wrongly ignored by advocates of environmental politics, this book addresses three major questions: What are the consequences of environmental sustainability for current patterns of social steering by the state and socioeconomic planning?; what lessons do earlier experiences of social and economic planning in Western democracies have for future sustainability planners? And, what challenges are generated for conventional socioeconomic management by specifically environmental planners?

Editors Michael Kenny and James Meadowcroft are both lecturers in Politics at Sheffield University. The contributors are Charles E. Lindblom, Michael Redclift, Michael Jacobs, William Rees, Wouter Achterberg, Paul Selman, Tim Lang, Martin Janicke and Helge Jorgens.

HARD GREEN: SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT FROM THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS: A CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO

Peter Huber. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000. [phone]. 224 pp. $25.00 Clothbound.

Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists: A Conservative Manifesto takes on the big issues of environmental discourse, from scarcity and pollution to efficiency and waste disposal. The book argues that modern environmentalism does not conserve forests, oceans, lakes, and streams but instead hastens their destruction. The author articulates a conservative alternative, advocating a return to the original environmentalism of Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation movement.

Peter Huber is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for Forbes. An MIT-trained engineer and a Harvard law graduate, Huber taught engineering at MIT and served as a law clerk to then appellate Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg and to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. His previous books include Liability and Galileo's Revenge.