Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998

Articles


The Value of a River

J. Stephen Lansing, Philip S. Lansing and Juliet S. Erazo

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 1-22

The Environmental Effects of Policy Change in the West African Savanna: Resettlement, Structural Adjustment and Conservation in Western Mali

Dolores Koenig and Tiéman Diarra

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 23-52

Whose Knowledge, Whose nature? Biodiversity, Conservation, and the Political Ecology of Social Movements

Arturo Escobar

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 53-82

Lobster in the Rain Forest: The Political Ecology of Miskito Wage Labor and Agricultural Deforestation

David J. Dodds

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 83-108

Book Reviews


Reconstructing Nature: Alienation, Emancipation and the Division of Labor, by Peter Dickens, London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Reviewed by Eliza Darling

Eliza Darling

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 1-6

Uncommon Ground: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Values (1997), by Veronica Strang, Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1997. Reviewed by Shelley Greer

Shelley Greer

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 6-8

Life and Death Matters: Human Rights and the Environment at the End of the Millennium. Barbara Rose Johnston, editor. 1997. Walnut Creek, London, New Delhi: Altamira Press. Reviewed by Diana Pritchard

Diana Pritchard

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 9-10

Insights on the Global Environment. Mending the Ozone Hole: Science, Technology, and Policy by Arjun Makhijani and Kevin R. Gurney, 1995, MIT Press. Reviewed by Donald J. Wuebbles

Donald J. Wuebbles

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 11-13

Sustainable Global Communities in the Information Age, edited by Kaoru Yamaguchi, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. Reviewed by Daniel P. Dolan

Daniel P. Dolan

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 14-16

Earth’s Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback by J. Baird Callicott, with a Foreword by Tom Hayden (1997) Berkeley: University of California Press. Reviewed by Dipak R. Pant

Dipak R. Pant

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 16-20

Kremlin Capitalism: Privatizing the Russian Economy, 1997, by Joseph R. Blasi, Maya Kroumova, and Douglas Kruse. foreword by Andrei Shleifer; with the research assistance of Daria Panina. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press. Reviewed by Dr. Tatyana G. Bogomazova

Tatyana G. Bogomazova

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 21-22

Population, Economic Development, and the Environment: The Making of Our Common Future, edited by Kerstin Lindahl-Kiessling and Hans Landberg. Oxford University Press, Oxford (1994). Reviewed by Lars T. Soeftestad

Lars T. Soeftestad

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 23-30

Third World in the First: Development and Indigenous Peoples, by Elspeth Young, 1995. London and New York: Routledge. Reviewed by James Waldram

James Waldram

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 30-31

Folk Management in the World’s Fisheries: Lessons for Modern Fisheries Management, Christopher L. Dyer and James R. McGoodwin, editors. 1994. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado. Reviewed by Patricia M. Clay

Patricia M. Clay

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 31-32

Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemalan Town, by Carol Hendrickson (1995). University of Texas Press. Reviewed by Tracy Bachrach Ehlers

Tracy Bachrach Ehlers

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 32-34

A Place in the Rain Forest: Settling the Costa Rican Frontier. Darryl Cole-Christensen. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1997. Reviewed by Philip D. Young

Philip D. Young

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 34-37

Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil. By Laura R. Graham. 1995. University of Texas Press. Reviewed By Debra Picchi

Debra Picchi

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 37-39

A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton, by John Jacobs; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. Reviewed by Richard E. DeLeon

Richard E. DeLeon

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 39-41

Militant Labor in the Philippines, by Lois A. West. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. Reviewed by Patricio N. Abinales

Patricio N. Abinales

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 42-45

Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change . Edited by Patrick V. Kirch and Terry L. Hunt, New Haven: Yale University Press (1997). Reviewed by Charles J. Stevens

Charles J. Stevens

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 46-50

In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia by Philippe Descola. 1994 (paperback 1996). Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. Reviewed by William H. Fisher

William H. Fisher

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 51-57

Water Resource Management: A Comparative Perspective. Edited by Dhirendra I. Vajpeyi. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 1998. Reviewed by David Guillet

David Guillet

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 57-60

Earth’s Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback by J. Baird Callicott, with a Foreword by Tom Hayden (1997) Berkeley: University of California Press. Reviewed by Dipak R. Pant

Dipak R. Pant

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 60-64

Envisioning Ecotopia: The U.S. Green Movement and the Politics of Radical Social Change, by Kenn Kassman, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. Reviewed by Bron Taylor

Bron Taylor

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 64-66

Review of The Yacyreta High Dam: Transnational Capitalism and Hydropolitics in Argentina, by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro 1994, Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Reviewed by Kendall V. House

Kendall V. House

1998-12-01 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 1998 • 67-70