Books received.

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COOPERATION: POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY IN PACIFIC ASIA

Paul G. Harris. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2003. (405) 324-3198. cdwyer@ou.edu. 320 pp. $29.95 Hardbound.

In International Environmental Cooperation: Politics and Diplomacy in Pacific Asia Paul G. Harris examines studies on international environmental polities and regional development, industry, and growth in Pacific Asia. The first section of the book examines many of the issues and actors impacting international environmental cooperation, highlighting themes such as cooperation between developed and developing countries, international justice, and regional environmental security. This section also illustrates key features of specific multilateral environmental agreements and the competing interests of important national bodies, international organizations, multinational corporations, and nongovernmental entities. The second section focuses on environmental diplomacy and regime-building in Pacific Asia, examining issues such as acid rain, nuclear waste, deforestation, and conflict over regional seas. Contributors from Asia, Europe, and North America bring an international perspective to questions of environmental cooperation.

Paul G. Harris is an associate professor of politics at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and a senior lecturer in international relations at London Metropolitan University. His books include International Equity and Global Environmental Politics, The Environment, International Relations, and US. Foreign Policy, and Climate Change and American Foreign Policy.

LEADERS AND LAGGARDS: NEXT-GENERATION ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

Neil Gunningham and Darren Sinclair. Sheffield, U.K.: Greenleaf Publishing, 2002. (44)-114-282-3475. Aizlewood Business Centre, Aizlewood's Mill, Nursery Street, Sheffield S3 8GG, U.K. info@greenleaf-publishing.com. www.greenleaf-publishing.com. 224 pp. $65.00 Hardbound. $32.00 Softbound.

Leaders and Laggards: Next-Generation Environmental Regulation aims to complement existing environmental initiatives and to expand the knowledge of regulatory reform. Leaders and Laggards focuses primarily on the differing requirements for both corporations and small-and medium-sized enterprises in North America and Europe. Gunningham and Sinclair show how existing experience can best be put to practical use 'on the ground,' draw lessons from experiments in innovative...