BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE POLITICS OF ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT

Hanna J. Cortner & Margaret A. Moore. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999. (202) 232-7933. 179 pp. $50.00 Clothbound, $25.00 Paperbound.

Resource management in the United States is undergoing a fundamental change. Traditional sustained-yield approaches that focus on commodity production and human resource are steadily giving way to ecological approaches, often referred to as ecosystem management, that have long-term ecological sustainability as their primary goal. To achieve that goal, ecosystem management emphasizes socially defined goals and objectives, integrated and holistic science, collaborative decision making, and adaptable institutions. The Politics of Ecosystem Management focuses entirely on the political challenges facing ecosystem management as it moves from theory to practice. The authors examine issues including the history of natural resource management in the United States, the theory behind ecosystem management, and potential inconsistencies and contradictions in the themes of ecosystem management.

Hanna J. Cortner is professor in the School of Renewable Natural Resources at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Margaret A. Moote is senior research specialist in the environmental conflict resolution program at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona.

HAA AANI, OUR LAND: TLINGIT AND HAIDA LAND RIGHTS AND USE

Walter R. Goldschmidt & Theodore H. Haas (Thomas F. Thorton ed.). Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1999. (206) 543-4050. 219 pp. $50.00 Clothbound, $35.00 Paperbound.

In the early 1940s, a boom in white migration to Southeast Alaska brought questions of land and resource fights to courts of law, where neither precedence nor evidence was sufficient to settle claims. In 1946, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs assigned a team of researchers to go from village to village to interview old and young alike to discover who owned and used the lands and waters and under what rules. Their mimeographed report established strong historical evidence to support Native land claims. Haa Aani, Our Land publishes this monumental study in book form for the first time. Walter Goldschmidt and Thomas Thornton explain the genesis, context, and significance of the original report. In addition, previously uncirculated testimony from the original 88 witnesses is included, along with a bibliography and an index of names, clans, and resources.

Walter...