Books received.

Neil Gunningham, Robert A. Kagan, and Dorothy Thornton. 1450 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304-1124: Stanford University Press, 2003. 210 pp. $21.95 Hardbound. $49.50 Cloth.

In Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and Environment, Neil Gunningham, Robert A. Kagan, and Dorothy Thornton study fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The study reveals that steadily tightening regulatory standards have been crucial for raising environmental performance. While all of the firms have shown improvement, some have improved more than others, going substantially beyond compliance. The authors assert that the variation is accounted for by the complex interaction between tightening regulations and a social license to operate especially pressures from community and environmental activists economic constraints, and differences in corporate environmental management style.

Neil Gunningham is a Professor in the School of Resources, Environment, and Society at the Australian National University. Robert A. Kagan is the Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society and Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Dorothy Thornton is a Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.

LINKING HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Edited by Romina Picolotti and Daniel Taillant. 355 S. Euclid #103, Tucson, Arizona 85719: The University of Arizona Press, 2003. 1-800-426-3797. 360 pp. $45.00 Cloth.

People in every nation are feeling the effects of ecosystem decline, from water shortages to landslides on deforested slopes to toxic neighborhoods. The victims often belong to vulnerable sectors of society--racial and ethnic minorities and the poor. Despite the clear links between environmental degradation, human suffering, and discrimination, governments and activists have historically treated human rights violations and environmental degradation as unrelated issues. Those focused on human rights regularly put civil and political rights first, while those focused on the environment rarely have addressed human impacts of environmental abuse. As a result, victims of environmental degradation have little, if any, protection and few defenders.

Linking Human Rights and the Environment demonstrates the growing interrelationship between human rights law and environmental advocacy. The book provides reviews of laws...