Books received.

THE YEARBOOK OF EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: VOLUME 5

Edited by T.F.M. Etty and H. Somsen. Great Clarendon Street Oxford OX2 6DP U.K.: Oxford University Press, November 2005. (44 1865) 556-767. www.oup.com. ISBN: 0-19-927878-4. 640 pp. $250.00 Hardback.

The Yearbook of European Environmental Law brings together topical analyses of contemporary European environmental law. Leading European and American academics provide in-depth scholarly articles covering a wide range of challenging issues. The Yearbook contains an easily accessible annual survey providing legal practitioners, academics, and policy-makers with detailed and indispensable information on current and future European environmental law. In addition, The Yearbook features summaries and full texts of preparatory commission documents, green books, and other discussion papers, as well as a selection of reviews of books.

Editors-in-chief: T.F.M. Etty, Researcher at the Centre for Environmental Law, University of Amsterdam; H. Somsen, Professor at the University of Amsterdam

Current survey editor: V. Heyvaert, Lecturer at the London School of Economics,

Book reviews editor: M. Lee, Lecturer at the King's College, London.

Documents editor: L. Kramer, Honorary Professor at the University of Bremen.

TRANSBOUNDARY HARM IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: LESSONS FROM THE TRAIL SMELTER ARBITRATION

Edited by Rebecca M. Bratspies and Russell A. Miller. 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473: Cambridge University Press, August 2006. (212) 924-3900. www.cambridge.org. ISBN 0-521-856434. 424 pp. $95.00 Hardback.

Many harms flow across the ever more porous sovereign borders of a globalizing world. These harms expose weaknesses in the international legal regime built on sovereignty of nation states. Using the Trail Smelter Arbitration, one of the most cited cases in international environmental law, this book explores the changing nature of state responses to transboundary harm. Taking a critical approach, the book examines the arbitration's influence on international law generally, and international environmental law specifically. In particular, the book explores whether there are lessons from Trail Smelter Arbitration that are useful for resolving transboundary challenges currently confronting the international community. The book collects the commentary of a distinguished set of international law scholars who consider the history of the Trail Smelter Arbitration, its significance for international environmental law, its broader relationship to international law, and its resonance in fields beyond the environment.

Rebecca M. Braptsies is an associate professor of law at CUNY School of Law where she teaches environmental, property, and administrative law.

Russell A. Miller is an Allan G. Shepard Distinguished Associate Professor of Law at the University of Idaho.

BORDER LANDSCAPES: THE POLITICS OF AKHA LAND USE IN CHINA AND THAILAND

Janet C. Sturgeon. P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145-5096: University of Washington Press, February 2006. (206) 543-4050. www.washington.edu/ uwpress. ISBN 0-295-98544-5. 264 pp. $50.00 Hardback.

In this comparative, interdisciplinary study based on extensive fieldwork as well as historical sources, Janet Sturgeon examines the different trajectories of landscape change and land use among communities who call themselves Akha (known as Hani in China) in contrasting political contexts. She shows how, over the last century, processes of state formation, construction of ethnic identity, and regional security concerns have contributed to very different outcomes for Akha and their forests in China and Thailand. With Chinese Akha function as citizens and grain producers, and Akha in Thailand are viewed as "non-Thai" forest destroyers.

The modern nation-state grapples with local power hierarchies on the periphery of the nation, with varied outcomes...