Volume 6

Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary Reader. Edited by Robert V Percival and Dorothy C. Alevizatos, Temple University Press, 1997; xvi + 439 pp. Reviewed by Lynn A. Robbins, Huxley College of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University

In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia by Philippe Descola. 1994 (paperback 1996). Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, pp. xviii+354 pages, subject and plant and animal indices. Reviewed by William H. Fisher, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary

Militant Labor in the Philippines, by Lois A. West. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. 244 pp+. Reviewed by Patricio N. Abinales, Department of Political Science, Ohio University

Ultimate Security: The Environmental Basis of Political Stability, by Norman Myers (1996) Washington, DC: Island Press. xi, 308 pp. Reviewed by K. Mark Leek, Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Envisioning Ecotopia: The U.S. Green Movement and the Politics of Radical Social Change, by Kenn Kassman, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998, x, 160 pp. Reviewed by Bron Taylor, Oshkosh Foundation Professor of Social Ethics and Director, Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

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). 331 pp. Reviewed by Charles J. Stevens, Program in Population Research, University of California - Berkeley

Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry, by Mark Moberg, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. Review by Anne Sutherland, Professor of Anthropology, Macalester College

Growth Management for a Sustainable Future: Ecological Sustainability as the New Growth Management Focus for the 21st Century, by Gabor Zovanyi, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1998. xv, 221 pp. Reviewed by Holly Stallworth, Economist, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Sustainable Ecosystems and Communities, Washington, DC.