Power and Development 23.2
Editorial: Brundtland and Beyond - Ray Tomalty
The Power Elite - Stephen Bocking
The Bakun Dam will flood 69,000 hectares of tropical forest, and displace thousands of people, to generate at great cost, electricity for which there is no immediate market..
A Foot in the Door -Juli A. Abouchar
Transnational corporations have always had access to international levers of power. Environmental groups are just now gaining some legal recognition and access.
City Limits - David McDonald
New public-private partnerships for improving cities may not meet UN Habitat Conference expectations.
Inset: Exorcising Apartheid from South Africa's Cities by David McDonald
Inset: Pride and Power in a Lima Shanty Town by Steven Hunt
The Pits - Tullia Marcolongo
BC's Huckleberry mine raises more concerns about flaws in the environmental assessment process, and conflicts of interest in government.
Gathering Steam -Steven Peck and Chris Callaghan
Eco-industrial parks exchange waste for efficiency and profit.
Political Warming - Ian H. Rowlands
The Geneva Climate Change Conference offers limited hope for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Inset: Scariest Thing About Climate Change: Climate Flips by Patricia Beaulieu
Temagami Diary - Laurie Gourlay
Ontario's government plans to open up for mining and logging 58 percent of one of the last stands of old growth pine.
Daishowa Tries Gag Critics - Christopher Genovali
Daishowa's latest SLAPP initiative was tailored to silence public criticism of their highly controversial lawsuit.
Reviews
Jonathan Collett and Stephen Karakashian, eds., Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts
Julian Keniry, Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the Century
Stephanie Mills, In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land
Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
Mary Lean, Bread, Bricks, Belief: Communities in Charge of Their Future
Harms' Way: The Intelligence of Chickens - Dave Harms
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