Reviews

Books reviewed: G. Worboys, M. Lockwood and T. De Lacey, Protected Area Management — Principles and Practice Martin Doornbos, Ashwani Saith and Ben White (eds.), Forests: Nature, People, Power Marwan A. Hassan, Olav Slaymaker and Simon M. Berkowicz (eds.), The Hydrology‐Geomorphology Interface: Rainfall, Floods, Sedimentation, Land Use M. Stone (ed.), The Role of Erosion and Sediment Transport in Nutrient and Contaminant Transfer Thomas J.R. Jenkin, Place, Image and Environmental Conflict: World Heritage and the Lake Eyre Basin P. Leadbeter, N. Gunningham and B. Boer (eds.), Environmental Outlook No. 3: Law and Policy T.M. Swanson and S. Johnston, Global Environmental Problems and International Environmental Agreements: the Economics of International Institution Building B. Pritchard and P. McManus (eds.), Land of Discontentment: the Dynamics of Change In Rural and Regional Australia L.R. Goldman (ed.), Social Impact Analysis: an Applied Anthropological Manual B. Badcock and A. Beer, Home Truths: Property Ownership and Housing Wealth in Australia     

B. REVIEW ESSAYS

Sam Peltzman, Regulation of Automobile Safety
George J. Stigler, The Citizen and the State: Essays on Regulation
William M. Wardell and Louis Lasagna, Regulation and Drug Development
William D. Coplin, Michael K. O'Leary, et al., Learninq Packaqes in the Policy Sciences
Daniel P. Harrison, Social Forecasting Methodology: Suggestion for Research
George K. Chacko, Technological Forecasting: Prospects, Problems and Policy     

BOOK REVIEWS

Victor L. Arnold ed. , Alternatives to Confronation – a National Policy Toward Regional Change
Lewis Benton, ed. , Private Management and Public Policy: Reciprocal Effects
Constance Ewing Cook , Nuclear Power and Legal Advocacy
Samuel S. Epstein , The Politics of Cancer
Charles R. Foster, ed. , Comparative Public Policy and Citizen Participation: Energy, Education, Health and Urban Issues in the U.S. and Germany
William J. Crimshaw , Union Rule in the Schools: Sig- City Policies in Transformation
Daniel A. Mazmanian and Jeanne Nienaber , Can Organizations Change: Environmental Protection, Citizen Participation, and the Corps of Engineers
Donald Mickelwait, Charles F. Sweet, and Elliott R. Morss. New Directions in Development
Warren B. Miller and R. Kenneth Godwin , Psyche and Demos: Individual Psychology and the Issues of Population
Stuart S. Nagel and Marian G. Neef , Decision Theory and the Legal Process
Barry S. Rundquist, ed. , Political Benefits: Empirical Studies of American Public Programs
David Pearce Snyder, ed. , The Family in Post-Industrial America
Sidney Sonenblum , The Energy Connections: Between Energy and the Economy
Alan L. Sorkin , The Economics of the Postal System
Keith M. Wulff, ed. , Regulation of Scientific Inquiry: Societal Concern with Research     

LITERATURE REVIEWS

BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Stephen Breyer, Regulation and Its Reform
Kenneth W. Clarkson and Timothy J. Muris, eds., The Federal Trade Commission Since 1970: Economic Regulation and Bureaucratic Behavior
Susan M. Phillips and J. Richard Zecher, The SEC and the Public Interest
BOOK REVIEWS
Robert G. Healy and James L. Short, The Market for Rural Land – Trends. Issues, Policies
John J. Kirlin, The Political Economy of Fiscal Limits
T. J. Pempel, Policy and Politics in Japan: Creative Conservatism
Forest W. Horton and Donald A. Marchand, eds., Information Management in Public Administration
BOOKNOTES
L. H. Gann and Peter Duignan, Africa South of the Sahara: The Challenge To Western Security
Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann, The Middle East and North Africa: The Chaknge to Western Security
Rosalie L. Tung, U.S.-China Trade Negotiations
Richard L. Gordon, Reforming the Regulation of Electric Utilities     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Environmental Discourse and Practice edited by Lisa M. Benton and John Rennie Short
Environmental discourse and practice: A reader edited by Lisa M. Benton and John Rennie Short
Review essay
A particular condition in life: Self-employment and social mobility in mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario
Assisting immigration to Upper Canada: The Petworth Project, 1832–1837
English immigrant voices: Labourer's letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s
A sense of their duty: Middle-class formation in Victorian Ontario towns
Making Ontario: Agricultural colonization and landscape re-creation before the railway     

Book Notes

Peter G. Brown and Henry Shue, eds., Food Policy: The Responsibility of the United States in the Life and Death Choices
Eleanor B. Steinberg and Joseph A. Yager with Gerard M. Brannon, New Means of Financing International Needs
William R. Cline, Noboru Kawanabe, T.O.M. Kronsjö, and Thomas Williams, Trade Negotiations in the Tokyo Round: A Quantitative Assessment
L. N. Rangarajan, Commodity Conflict; The Political Economy of International Commodity Negotiations
Erwin G. Krasnow and Lawrence D. Longley, The Politics of Broadcast Regulation     

Book Notes

Sanford Borins, Innovating with Integrity: How Local Heroes are Transforming American Government .
Milton M. Carrow, Robert P. Churchill, and Joseph J. Cordes, Democracy, Social Values, and Public Policy .
Joseph D. Davey, The Politics of Prison Expansion: Winning Elections by Waging War on Crime. Westport
Sherry Glied, Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform Fails .
Erich Goode, Between Politics and Reason: The Drug Legalization Debate.
Peter J. Haas, and J. Fred Springer, Applied Policy Research: Concepts and Cases .
Rodney E. Hero, Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics .
Stuart S. Nagel, Policy Within and Across Developing Nations .
Paul L. Posner, The Politics of Unfunded Mandates: Whither Federalism
Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, Lawrence Bobo, and Maria Krysan, Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (rev. ed.) .
Mark E. Rushefsky and Kant Patel, Politics, Power, & Policy Making: The Case of Health Care Reform in the 1990s .
Donald A. Sylvan and James F. Voss (eds.), Problem Representation in Foreign Policy Decision Making .
Edward P. Weber, Pluralism by the Rules: Conflict and Cooperation in Environmental Regulation .
Walter A. Zelman and Robert A. Berenson, The Managed Care Blues and How to Cure Them .     

REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS

Field and Theory: Lectures in Geocryology, edited by Michael Church and Olav Slaymaker
Environmental Impact Assessment: The Canadian Experience edited by J.B.R. WHITNEY and V.W. MACLAREN
New Directions in Environmental Impact Assessment in Canada edited by V.W. MACLAREN and J.B.R. WHITNEY
Ecology, Impact Assessment and Environmental Planning by WALTER E. WESTMAN, John Wiley and Sons
The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China by VACLAV SMIL, M.E. SHARP
Forging a Consensus: Historical Essays on Toronto edited by VICTOR L. RUSSELL
Toronto to 1918: An Illustrated History by J.M.S. CARELESS
Toronto since 1918: An Illustrated History by JAMES T. LEMON
Too Many, Too Long: Sudan's Twenty-Year Refugee Dilemma by JOHN R. ROGGE
North of 50°: An Atlas of Far Northern Ontario by J.E.J. FAHLGREN and GEOFFREY MATTHEWS
Progress in Industrial Geography edited by MICHAEL PACIONE
Production, Work, Territory: The Geographical Anatomy of Industrial Capitalism edited by ALLEN J. SCOTT and MICHAEL STORPER     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values , by Y i -F u T uan
Huronia , by C onrad H eidenreich
Irish Settlements in Eastern Canada , by J ohn M annion , Department of Geography
Environmental Damage and Control , General Editor: M. J. D unbar , McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal. Volume I: Environment and Good Sense: An Introduction to Environmental Damage and Control in Canada , by M. J. D unbar
Land Use, Urban Form and Environmental Quality , by B rian J. L. B erry et al.
Remote Sensing , by J. E. E stes and L. W. S enger
Housing Development and Municipal Costs , by G eorge S ternlieb , et al.
Residential and Neighbourhood Studies in Victoria , edited by C.N. F orward     

Reviews

D.R. Rothwell and R. Davis Antarctic Environmental Protection: a Collection of Australian and International Instruments G.J. Aplin Australians and their Environment: an Introduction to Environmental Studies J. Dargavel (ed.) Australia's Ever-Changing Forests III: Proceedings of the Third National Conference on Australian Forest History D. Slattery The Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks J.M. Jacobs Edge of Empire Postcolonialism and the City M. McKinnon with B. Bradley and R. Kirkpatrick (eds) New Zealand Historical Atlas: Ko Papatuanuku e Takoto Nei I.G. Thomas Environmental Impact Assessment in Australia: Theory and Practice D. Shearman and G. Sauer-Thompson Green or Gone A.S. Goudie (ed.) The Human Impact Reader: Readings and Case Studies G.C. Wescott Wilsons Promontory: Marine and National Park, Victoria     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: E. Shepard and T. J. Barnes (eds.), A Companion to Economic Geography G. L. Clark, M. P. Feldman and M. S. Gertler (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography A. Rogers and H. A. Viles (eds.), The Student's Companion to Geography, 2^nd edition G. Bridge and S. Watson (eds.), A Companion to the City G. Bridge and S. Watson (eds.), The Blackwell City Reader G. Aplin, Heritage: Identification, Conservation, and Management T. Huybers and J. Bennett, Environmental Management and the Competitiveness of Nature‐based Tourism Destinations M. Shaw, D. Dorling and R. Mitchell, Health, Place and Society J. Collins, G. Noble, S. Poynting and P. Tabar, Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Youth, Ethnicity and Crime N. A. Geeson, C. J. Brandt and J. B. Thornes (eds.), Mediterranean Desertification S. Boehmer‐Christiansen and A. Kellow, International Environmental Policy: Interests and the Failure of the Kyoto Process L. Head, Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change     

Reviews

Books reviewed: P. Hay, Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought P. Kershaw, B. David, N. Tapper, D. Penny and J. Brown (eds), Bridging Wallace's Line: the Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Southeast Asian–Australian Region A. Sturman and R. Spronken–Smith, The Physical Environment: a New Zealand Perspective I.H. Burnley, The Impact of Immigration on Australia: a Demographic Approach A. Boncompagni, The World is Just Like a Village: Globalization and Transnationalism of Italian Migrants from Tuscany in Western Australia M.M. Cernea and C. McDowell (eds), Risks and Reconstruction: Experiences of Resettlers and Refugees A.C. Gatrell, Geographies of Health: an Introduction G. Valentine, Social Geographies. Space and Society     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article:
Rob Shields Places on the Margin: Alternative geographies of modernity .
M. Storper and A. J. Scott (Eds.) Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development .
Jean-François Bayart The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly .
Jonathan Crush and Charles Ambler (Eds.) Liquor and Labor In South Africa .
Robert Bullard, (Ed.) Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots .
Martin W. Lewis , Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism .
Andrew Gilg (Ed.) Restructuring The Countryside: Environmental Policy in Practice     

Reviews

Books reviewed: R.W. Dutton Changing Rural Systems in Oman: the Khabura Project R. Capello, P. Nijkamp and G. Pepping Sustainable Cities and Energy Policies P.J. Boyle and K. Halfacree (eds) Migration into Rural Areas: Theories and Issues L.M. Benton and J.R. Short Environmental Discourse and Practice D.B. Massey, J. Allen and P. Sarre (eds) Human Geography Today G.M. Robinson Methods and Techniques in Human Geography L. McDowell Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies I.R. Tyrrell True Gardens of the Gods: Californian–Australian Environmental Reform, 1860–1930     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Spatial Search: Applications to Planning Problems in the Public Sector , by B rian H. M assam
Geography and Resource Analysis , by B ruce M itchell
Ecology and Environmental Management , by C hris C. P ark
Environment, Ideology and Policy , by F rancis S andbach
The Wooing of Earth , by R ené D ubos
Philadelphia: Work, Space, Family and Group Experience in the Nineteenth Century , edited by T heodore H ershberg     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Australian Landforms: Structure, Process and Time C.R. Twidale and E.M. Campbell Keeping New Zealand Green, Recent Environmental Reforms: P. A. Memon The Slow Plague. A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic: Peter Gould Ecogeography and Rural Management: a Contribution to the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: Jean Tricart, and Conrad KiewietdeJonge Housing Australia: C. Paris Aspects of Environmental Change: T.R.R. Johnston and J.R. Flenley (eds.) Places worth Keeping; Conservationists, Politics and the Law: Tim Bonyhady University of NSW ADFA, Canberra     

CONTENTS

Book reviewed in this article:
Population Redistribution and Public Policy , by Brian J.L. Berry and Lester P. Silverman (eds.).
Spatial Analysis, Industry and the Industrial Environment, Volume I—Industrial Systems , by F.E. Ian Hamilton and G.J.R. Linge (eds.).
Evaluation in Environmental Planning: Assessing Environmental, Social, Economic and Political Trade-offs , by Donald M. McAllister.
Spatial Inequalities and Regional Development , by H. Folmer and J. Oosterhaven (eds.).
Memoirs , by Jean Monnet.     

Reviews

Books reviewed: R. Blong, D. Sinai and C. Packham, Natural Perils in Australia and New Zealand David Robertson and Aynsley Kellow (eds), Globalization and the Environment: Risk Assessment and the WTO Libby Robin, Defending the Little Desert, The Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Australia H. Millward, K. Beesley, B. Ilbery And L. Harrington (Eds), Agricultural And Environmental Sustainability In The New Countryside A. G. Aguilar And I. Escamilla (Eds), Problems Of Mega Cities: Social Inequalities, Environmental Risk And Urban Governance A.s. Fotheringham, C. Brunsdon And M. Charlton, Quantitative Geography: Perspectives On Spatial Data Analysis     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Principes de geographie sociale, by Paul Claval . Paris: M.-Th. Genin, 1973; Methodes quantitatives et espace urbain, by Pierre Merlin . Environmental Problems and Their International Implications, edited by Halis Odabasi and S. Erol Ulug .     

Reviews

Books reviewed: L. Bondi, H. Avis, R. Bankey, A. Bingley, J. Davidson, R. Duffy, V. Einagel, A. Green, L. Johnston, S. Lilley, C. Listerborn, S. McEwan, M. Marshy, N. O’Connor, G. Rose, B. Vivat and N. Wood, Subjectivities, Knowledges, and Feminist Geo‐graphies: The Subjects and Ethics of Social Research L.C. Botterill and M. Fisher (eds), Beyond Drought. People, Policy and Perspectives J.S. Bridge, Rivers and Floodplains. Forms, Processes, and Sedimentary Record Carolyn Cartier, Globalizing South China Stephen Dovers and Su Wild River (eds), Managing Australia's Environment Antoinette M. Mannion, Dynamic World: Land‐cover and Land‐use Change P. Moss (ed.), Feminist Geography in Practice E. Pawson and T. Brooking (eds), Environmental Histories of New Zealand Ian Thomas, Environmental Impact Assessment in Australia: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition J.F. Williams and R.J. Stimson (eds), International Urban Planning Settings: Lessons of Success