Books received.

BRANCHING OUT, DIGGING IN: ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY AND AGENDA SETTING

Sarah B. Pralle. 3240 Prospect Street NW, Washington, DC 20007: Georgetown University Press, December 2006. (202) 687-5889. http://www.press.georgetown.edu. ISBN: 1-58901-123-6, 279 pages. $29.95 Paperback.

Late in 1993 citizens from around the world mobilized on behalf of saving old-growth forests in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia. Yet, at the same time only a very few took note of an even larger reserve of public land at risk in northern California. Centered on conflicts between environmentalists seeking to preserve old-growth forests and timber companies fighting to preserve their logging privileges, both cases marked important episodes in the history of forest politics in their respective countries but with dramatically different results.

Pralle analyzes how the various political actors--local and national environmental organizations, local residents, timber companies, and different levels of government--defined the issues in words and images, created and reconfigured alliances, and drew in different governmental institutions to attempt to achieve their goals. She develops a dynamic new model of conflict management by advocacy groups that puts a premium on nimble timing, flexibility, targeting, and tactics to gain the advantage and shows that how political actors go about exploiting these opportunities and overcoming constraints is a critical part of the policy process.

Sarah B. Pralle is an assistant professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

YEARBOOK OF CULTURAL PROPERTY LAW 2007

Edited by Sherry Hutt. 1630 North Main Street, #400, Walnut Creek, CA 94596: Left Coast Press, March 2007. (925) 935-3380. http://www.lcoastpress.com. ISBN: 978-1-59874-078-3, 288 pages. $69.95 Hardback.

The Yearbook provides those in the heritage management world with summaries of notable court cases, settlements and other dispositions, legislation, government regulations, policies, and agency decisions that affect their work. Interviews with key figures, refereed research articles, think pieces, and a substantial resources section rounds out each volume. Thoughtful analyses and useful information from leading practitioners in the diverse field of cultural property law will assist government land managers, state, tribal, and museum officials, attorneys, anthropologists, archaeologists, public historians, and others to better preserve, protect, and manage cultural property in domestic and international venues. The 2007 volume highlights interviews with John Henry Merryman, emeritus professor at Stanford Law School, and UC Berkeley law professor Joseph L. Sax and features articles on the international art market, looting, Native American remains, and museum trusteeship. All royalties are donated to the Lawyer's Committee on Cultural Heritage Preservation.

Sherry Hutt is the program manager for the National Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Program in the Department of the Interior.

FLAGGING STANDARDS: GLOBALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL, SAFETY, AND LABOR REGULATIONS AT SEA

Elizabeth R. DeSombre. 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142: MIT Press, March 2007. (800) 405-1619. http://mitpress.mit.edu. ISBN: 0-26254190-4. 308 pages. $24.00 Paperback.

Shipping is among the most globalized of industries. Ship owners can choose where to register their vessels, based on cost, convenience, and the international and domestic regulations that would govern their operation. This system of open registration, also known as flags of convenience (FOC), can encourage a competition in regulatory laxity among states that want to attract shipping revenues--a race to the regulatory bottom. In Flagging Standards, Elizabeth DeSombre examines the effect of globalization on environmental, safety, and labor standards in the shipping industry. She finds that the economic advantages of lowered standards can be offset by the collective action of international organizations, states, and nongovernmental actors to exclude low-standard ships from the advantages of globalization. Open registries are pressured to raise their standards while traditional maritime states lower theirs somewhat when they create international or second registries. The result is a competition not for the regulatory bottom but for the middle ground.

DeSombre examines the decisions made by states and ship owners that lead to this race to the middle and explores...