Books received.

OZONE CONNECTIONS: EXPERT NETWORKS IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE

Penelope Canan and Nancy Reichman. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2002. (0)114-282-3475.sales@greenleaf-publishing.com. www.greenleaf-publishing.com. 228 pp. 40.00 [pounds sterling] Hardbound.

In Ozone Connections: Expert Networks in Global Environmental Governance, Penelope Canan and Nancy Reichman explore numerous factors that they feel have made the 1987 Montreal Protocol for the Elimination of Ozone-Depleting Substances successful. These factors include political will, treaty flexibility, and the recognition of equity issues raised by developing countries. In addition, the book suggests that social organizations of global governance, such as the Protocols Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP), played an important role in the Protocol's success and that although the panel is unique, it is also a model that can be replicated for future efforts toward international environmental cooperation.

Penelope Canan is Professor of Sociology and Director of the International Institute for Environment and Enterprise at the University of Denver, Colorado.

Nancy Reichman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver, Colorado.

THE ECONOMIC DYNAMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

David M. Driesen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press, 2003. (800) 405-1619. http://mitpress.mit.edu. 268 pp. $24.95 Softbound.

In The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law, David Driesen argues that environmental policy making in the United States has been poorly served by the dominant, static view of the relationship between environmental regulation and the economy, technology, and business...

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