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The United States' new Global Climate Change initiatives, proposed by the Bush Administration on 14 February 2002, reveal the attitude of the U.S. toward future efforts to address climate change. In this paper, the author clarifies this "attitude" by analyzing the content of these new initiatives, and discusses the inititiatives' theoretical...

Book Review "Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy" by Arthur P. J. Mol, Professor, Environmental Sociology and Policy at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Publisher information: Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. ISBN: 0-262-13395-4, 273 pp., U.S.$ 37.95 (hbk)...

Book Review "Global Environmental Risk" edited by Jeanne X. Kasperson, Research Associate Professor and Research Librarian, George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, USA, and a Visiting Scholar, Stockholm Environment Institute; and Roger E. Kasperson, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute. Publisher information: Tokyo: United...

Nation-states founded in Europe during the eighteenth century formed their own economies, political institutions, and societies. Although the interdependence between states deepened through trade, in the twentieth century these states still basically functioned as distinct economic, political, and social units. In the latter half of twentieth...

Pleasant weather and beautiful scenery refresh us, polluted air and water cause us concern about ecosystems and human health, and global environmental disasters threaten us on a larger scale. Yet it seems difficult for people in industrialized countries to realize how much they owe to the environment, while people in developing countries are often...

This, the second Issue of IRES, offers papers from a diverse group of authors who contributed their insights on a broad range of topics. The issue begins with an essay by Dean James Gustave Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, on the role of the United States in an increasingly globalized world. Prof. Dr. Peter...