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For additonal information on the global trends and regional analyses covered by this web site, consult the following resources.

Global Trends
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). “Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.” Rio de Janeiro, 3–14 June 1992.

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). “Agenda 21: Programme of Action for Sustainable Development.” Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992.

Political Organization
Annan, Kofi. We, the Peoples: Millennium Report on the Role of the United Nations in the Twenty-First Century. New York: United Nations, 2001.

Commission on Global Governance. Our Global Neighborhood: The Report of the Commission on Global Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Lipschutz, Ronnie D., with Judith Meyer. Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Governance: The Politics of Nature from Place to Planet. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Rodrik, Dani. The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work. Policy Essay No. 24. Washington, D.C.: Overseas Development Council, 1999.

Susskind, Lawrence E. Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Conflict, Peace, and Security
Austin, Jay E., and Carl E. Bruch. The Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic and Scientific Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Homer-Dixon, Thomas. Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Myers, Norman. Ultimate Security: The Environmental Basis of Political Stability. New York: W.W. Norton, 1993.

Stern, Jessica. The Ultimate Terrorists. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). SIPRI Yearbook 2002: Armaments, Disarmament, and International Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Globalization and Trade
Bright, Chris. Life Out of Bounds: Bioinvasion in a Borderless World. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.

International Forum on Globalization (IFG) Alternatives Task Force. Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible. San Francisco, Calif.: Berrett-Koehler, 2002.

Krishnan, Rajaram, Jonathan M. Harris, and Neva Goodwin. A Survey of Ecological Economics. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1995.

Nye, Joseph S., and John D. Donahue, eds. Governance in a Globalizing World. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2000.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Report on Trade and Environment. Paris: OECD, 1999.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.

Strange, Susan. The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Human Development Report 1999: Globalization with a Human Face. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

International Debt
Bakker, Age. International Financial Institutions. London: Longman, 1996.

Blecker, Robert A. Taming Global Finance: A Better Architecture for Growth and Equity. Washington, D.C.: Economic Policy Institute, 1999.

Fox, Jonathan A. and L. David Brown, eds. The Struggle for Accountability: The World Bank, NGOs, and Grassroots Movements. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press, 1998.

George, Susan. A Fate Worse Than Debt. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1988.

Sachs, Jeffrey. “Resolving the Debt Crisis of Low-Income Countries.” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 2002: 1. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. @@@@

Regionalization
Bach, Daniel C. Regionalisation in Africa: Integration and Disintegration. Oxford: James Currey, 1999.

Frankel, Jeffrey, Ernesto Stein, and Shang-Jin Wei. Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System. Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1997.

Gilpin, Robert. The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the Twenty-First Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Herr, Stephen, and Richard Weber, eds. European Integration and American Federalism: A Comparative Perspective. Berkeley, Calif.: Portuguese Studies Program and International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1996.

Ravenhill, John. APEC and the Construction of Pacific Rim Regionalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Population and Consumption
National Research Council Board on Sustainable Development. Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999.

Cohen, Joel E. How Many People Can the Earth Support? New York: Norton, 1995.

Lee, Kai N. Compass and Gyroscope: Integrating Science and Politics for the Environment. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993.

McNeill, John Robert. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). State of World Population 2002: People, Poverty, and Possibilities. New York: UNFPA, 2002.

World Bank. Livable Cities for the 21st Century: The Post Habitat II Agenda for the World Bank. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2000.

Energy, Transportation, and Consumer Culture
Fischer, Frank, and Maarten A. Hajer, eds. Living with Nature: Environmental Politics as Cultural Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Fox, Richard Wrightman, and T. J. Jackson Lears, eds. The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880–1980. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.

Nakicenovic, Nebojsa, Arnulf Grubler, and Alan McDonald. Global Energy: Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Schor, Juliet B. The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer. New York: Basic Books, 1998.

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Mobility 2001: World Mobility at the End of the Twentieth Century and Its Sustainability. Geneva, Switzerland: WBCSD, 2001.Technology

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Main Science and Technology Indicators (Principaux indicateurs de la science et de la technologie). Paris: OECD, 1988.

Schulze, Peter C., ed. Engineering within Ecological Constraints. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996.

Skolnikoff, Eugene B. The Elusive Transformation: Science, Technology, and the Evolution of International Politics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.

United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). Government Strategies and Policies for Cleaner Production. Nairobi: UNEP, 1994.

Regional Analysis
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Global Environment Outlook 2000. London: UNEP Earthscan, 1999.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Global Environment Outlook 3. London: UNEP Earthscan, 2002.Africa

African Union. Strategic Plan of the African Union Commission, Volume 1: Vision and Mission of the African Union. Addis Ababa: African Union Commission, 2004.

Ake, Claude. Democracy and Development in Africa. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institute, 1996.

Iliffe, John. Africans: The History of a Continent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

McCann, James C. Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1999.

Turshen, Meredeth, ed. African Women’s Health. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2000.

Asia and the Pacific
Asian Development Bank. Asian Development Outlook 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Campbell, Ian C. A History of the Pacific Islands. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1989.

East-West Center Research Program, Population and Health Studies. The Future of Population in Asia. Honolulu, Hi.: East-West Center, 2002.

Hirsch, Philip, and Carol Warren. The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia: Resources and Resistance. London: Routledge, 1996.

Murphey, Rhoads. A History of Asia. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 2002.

Europe, Russia, and Central Asia
Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Lafferty, William M., ed. Sustainable Communities in Europe. London: Earthscan, 2001.

Rietberger, Peter. Europe: A Cultural History. London: Routledge, 1998.

Soucek, Svatopluk. A History of Inner Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Wallace, Helen, and William Wallace. Policy-Making in the European Union. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Zurcher, Erik Jan. Turkey: A Modern History. Rev. ed. London: I. B. Tauris, 1998.

Latin America and the Caribbean
Birdsall, Nancy, Carol Graham, and Richard H. Sabot, eds. Beyond Tradeoffs: Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America. Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank and Brookings Institution Press, 1998.

Burdick, John. Blessed Anastácia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil. New York: Routledge, 1998.

Galeano, Eduardo. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. Translated by Cedric Belfrage. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973.

Steen, Harold K., and Richard P. Tucker, eds. Changing Tropical Forests:
Historical Perspectives on Today’s Challenges in Central and South America.
Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 1992.

Williams, Eric Eustace. From Columbus to Castro: A History of the Caribbean. London: Deutsch, 1970.

North America
Albanese, Catherine. America: Religions and Religion. 3rd ed. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishers, 1999.

Gaffield, Chad, and Pam Gaffield. Consuming Canada: Readings in Environmental History. Mississauga, Ont.: Copp Clark, 1995.

Hays, Samuel P. A History of Environmental Politics Since 1945. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

Portney, Paul R., and Robert N. Stavins, eds. Public Policies for Environmental Protection. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 2000.

Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

The Polar Regions
Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy. Rovaniemi, Finland: 1991.
This is sort of a treaty. @@@@@@@

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). Arctic Pollution 2002: Persistent Organic Pollutants, Heavy Metals, Radioactivity, Human Health, Changing Pathways. Oslo, Norway: AMAP, 2002.

Benedick, Richard Elliot. Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Chaturvedi, Sanjay. The Polar Regions: A Political Geography. London: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Nuttall, Mark, and Terry V. Callaghan, eds. The Arctic: Environment, People, Policy. Australia: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000.West Asia

Chaudhry, Kiren Aziz. The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997.

Cleveland, William L. A History of the Modern Middle East. 2nd ed. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000.

Kressel, Gideon M. Let Shepherding Endure: Applied Anthropology and the Preservation of a Cultural Tradition in Israel and the Middle East. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2003.

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization. San Francisco, Calif.: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003.

Rouyer, Alwyn R. Turning Water into Politics: The Water Issue in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Houndmills, UK: Macmillan Press, 2000.

 

 

 

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