Publications2003–2004

United NationsUniversity Press

Contents

New Titles .................................................................1

Recently Published..................................................13

Environment............................................................20

Peace and Governance ............................................30

Development ...........................................................38

Books in Series .......................................................42

Title Index...............................................................46

List of Distributors..................................................49

How to Order ..........................................................53

Order Form..............................................................54

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Refugees and Forced DisplacementInternational Security, Human Vulnerability, and the State

The orthodox definition of international security

puts human displacement and refugees at the

periphery. In contrast, Refugees and Forced

Displacement demonstrates that human

displacement can be both a cause and a

consequence of conflict within and among

societies. As such, the management of refugee

movements and the protection of displaced

people should be an integral part of security

policy and conflict management.

Refugees and forcibly displaced people can

also represent the starkest example of a tension

between human security where the primary focus

is the individual and communities and more conventional models of national

security tied to the sovereign state and military defence of territory. This book

explores this tension with respect to a number of pressing problems related to

refugees and forced displacement. It also demonstrates how many of these

challenges have been exacerbated by the war on terror since September 11, 2001.

“For too long the study of refugee issues has been seen as an isolated

and often secondary challenge. It should now be analyzed within a much

broader context with the needs and rights of people at the centre, rather

than on the periphery. This book represents a substantial input into this

developing debate.” From the foreword by Sadako Ogata, United

Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1991-2000.

Table of Contents: Foreword • Part I: Political, security and normative perspectives • Refugees, internationalsecurity, and human vulnerability: Introduction and survey • Refugees as grounds forinternational action • Refugees and human displacement in contemporary international relations:Reconciling state and individual sovereignty • Refugee protection policies and security issues •Human security and the protection of refugees • Thinking ethically about refugees: A case for thetransformation of global governance • The early warning of forced migration: State or humansecurity? • Part II: Displacement, return and resettlement • Towards a protection regime forinternally displaced persons • Reconciling control and compassion? Human smuggling and theright to asylum • Post-conflict peace-building and the return of refugees: Concepts, practices andinstitutions • The long-term challenges of reconstruction and reintegration: Case studies of Haitiand Bosnia-Herzegovina • Sovereignty, gender and displacement • Part III: Actors andinstitutions • Securitizing sovereignty? States, refugees, and the regionalization of internationallaw • A new Tower of Babel? Reappraising the architecture of refugee protection • Distancemakes the heart grow fonder: Media images of refugees and asylum seekers • Changing roles ofNGOs in refugee assistance

Edward Newman and Joanne van Selm, editors

ISBN 92-808-1086-3 • Paper

• 402pp • US$38.00

Edward Newman is an

academic officer in the Peace

and Governance Programme of

the United Nations University.

Joanne van Selm is a senior

policy analyst at the Migration

Policy Institute and a lecturer

in political science at the

University of Amsterdam.

Contributors: B.S.Chimni • Patricia WeissFagen • Mervyn Frost • KhalidKoser • Gil Loescher • WilliamMaley • Peter Mares • JulieMertus • Erin D. Mooney •Edward Newman • Gregor Noll• Mark Raper • SusanneSchmeidl • Joanne van Selm •Astri Suhrke • Gary Troeller

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Perspectives on Growth and Poverty

The relationship between growth and poverty

lies at the heart of development economics.

While many see aggregate growth as both

necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty,

and consequently focus their efforts on achieving

the desired macroeconomic outcomes, others

stress that the benefits from growth may not be

evenly spread. In fact critics of globalization

often point out that growth of the macroeconomy

may well have an adverse effect on the most

vulnerable members of society. Thus the

distributional impact of growth, as well as its

level, needs to be taken into account when

considering the consequences for poverty.

The importance of this topic, and the continuing controversies surrounding it,

prompted United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics

Research (UNU/WIDER) to organize a major academic conference on growth

and poverty to review current thinking and stimulate fresh research.

Perspectives on Growth and Poverty deals with institutional and policy

questions, as well as sectoral issues and individual country experiences that

illustrate the broad range of objectives and topics.

“ Perspectives on Growth and Poverty deals with two subjects which have

attracted treatments that score high on relevance or on rigour: the present

volume offers a collection of essays which, exceptionally, score high with

respect to both attributes.” Professor S. Subramanian, Madras Institute

of Development Studies

Table of Contents:

Collective values, behavioural norms and rules: Building institutions for economic growth and

poverty reduction • Institutional capital and poverty: A transition perspective • Why is so little

spent on educating the poor? • The fragility of empirical links between inequality, trade

liberalization, growth and poverty • Convergence clubs in cross-country life expectancy

dynamics • Reaching the poor: Fine-tuning poverty targeting using a poverty map of

Mozambique • Poverty, growth and redistribution: A case-study of Iran • How economic growth

reduces poverty: A general equilibrium analysis for Indonesia • Poverty, inequality and growth

in Zambia during the 1990s • Gender and education as determinants of household poverty in

Nigeria

Rolph van der Hoeven and Anthony Shorrocks, editors

ISBN 92-808-1091-X • paper

• 328pp • US$32.00

Publication date:

September, 2003

Rolph van der Hoeven is

Manager of the Technical

Secretariat of the World

Commission on Globalization,

established by the International

Labour Organization in

Geneva. Anthony Shorrocks

is Director of United Nations

University World Institute for

Development Economics

Research (UNU/WIDER).

Contributors:

Ke-young Chu • Syed Ahsan •

Tony Addison • Aminur

Rahman • Jennifer Mbabazi •

Oliver Morrissey • Chris

Milner • David Mayer-Foulkes

• Orlando San Martin • Ahmad

Assadzadeh • Satya Paul •

George Fane • Peter Warr •

Neil McCulloch • Bob Baulch •

Milasoa Cherel-Robson •

Christiana Okojie

Human Rights and Societies in TransitionCauses, Consequences, Responses

Human rights violations are often particularly

severe in transition societies that are undergoing

significant political, social and economic

transformations. Improving human rights

practices in transition societies should therefore

be a central goal for domestic reformers and the

international community alike. This makes sense

not only because of the intrinsic value of

improved human rights protection, but also

because of the indirect effects that such

improvements have on democratization,

economic development, and conflict resolution.

The book is a joint effort by 17 scholars from

various parts of the world, specializing in political science, sociology, law, and

regional studies. It explores the contemporary international human rights regime,

the factors predominantly responsible for human rights violations in transition

societies, long-term consequences of such violations, and political remedies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Human rights and societies in transition: International context and sources of

variation • Part One: Defining, delimiting and understanding human rights in societies in

transition • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a norm for societies in transition •

Universalism and cultural relativism: Lessons for transitional states • From global norms to local

change: Theoretical perspectives on the promotion of human rights in societies of transition •

Part Two: Monitoring, promoting and enforcing human rights • The United Nations and human

rights • The consequences of the War Crimes Tribunals and an International Criminal Court for

human rights in transition societies • International efforts to protect human rights in transition

societies: Right, duty, or politics? • Democratic transitions and foreign policy: The United States

• Part Three: Sources of human rights violations and their impact on peace, democratization and

economic development • Sources and consequences of human rights violations in Iraq •

Exploring the dynamics of human rights and reform: Iran, Pakistan and Turkey • Causes and

consequences of variation in post-communist human rights practices • Human rights and conflict

in the former Yugoslavia • Human rights in transition societies: The cases of Somalia and South

Africa • Human rights and transition societies in Western Africa • Political development and

democratic rights in Greater China • Human rights in India • Human rights, the military, and the

transition to democracy in Argentina and South Korea • Conclusion: Protecting human rights in

transition societies: Lessons and recommendations

Shale Horowitz and Albrecht Schnabel, editors

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ISBN 92-808-1092-8 • paper

• 500pp. • US$45.00

Publication date: April 2004

Shale Horowitz is an associate

professor in the Department of

Political Science, University of

Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Albrecht Schnabel is a senior

research fellow at swisspeace –

Swiss Peace Foundation, Bern.

Contributors:

Shale Horowitz • Albrecht

Schnabel • Johannes Morsink •

Richard Lewis Siegel •

Geneviève Souillac •

W. Ofuatey-Kodjoe • Paul J.

Magnarella • Barbara Ann J.

Rieffer • David P. Forsythe •

Jenab Tutunji • Mahmood

Monshipouri • Aleksandar

Resanovic • Wafula Okumu •

Eghosa E. Osaghae •

Man-To Leung • D. R.

Kaarthikeyan • Terence

Roehrig

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South Asia in the WorldProblem Solving Perspectives on Security, SustainableDevelopment, and Good Governance

The scale of the problems faced and the numbers

of people involved in South Asia are so huge that

success or failure in South Asia pose defining

challenges to the core mandates of the United

Nations as the global arena for problem-solving.

Developments in South Asia cut across the major

faultlines of the UN system with respect to the

challenges of economic development,

environmental protection, food and water

security, democratic governance and human

rights, nuclear war and peace, inter-state and

internal conflicts, and new security issues like

AIDS and international terrorism.

South Asia in the World, presents issues of particular relevance to the region,

and explores the potential for improvement both in domestic and international

efforts at alleviating the problems of South Asia.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: South Asia’s manifold challenge to the International Community • South Asia in

the family of nations • South Asia: Melting pot of global faultlines • Security: Nuclear weapons

and nuclear war in South Asia: The unknown future • International security in a nuclear South

Asia • National security: Interstate conflict in South Asia (A Nepali perspective) • Terrorism and

political agitation in post-colonial South Asia: Jammu-Kashmir and Sri Lanka • South Asian

contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations: particular reference to India’s

participation • UN and South Asia: Bangladesh’s contribution to UN peacekeeping •

Development: Pro-poor policies in South Asia • Trade and investment in South Asia •

Governance: Democratic governance in South Asia: Problems and prospects • Pluralism,

democracy and governance and South Asia: The case of Sri Lanka • Environment: Critical links

between environment and development in South Asia • The environmental challenge to human

security in South Asia • Diffusion of international peace? International rivers and bilateral

relations in South Asia • Regional cooperation: Security organisation for South Asia (SOSA):

Mechanism for conflict resolution in South Asia • SAARC as an institutional framework for

cooperation in South Asia • Human security: Human security: The Perspective of children and

women in South Asia • Child malnutrition and gender discrimination in South Asia: is the worst

malnutrition linked to the worst gender discrimination in the world? • “Hum honge kamiyab...

(We shall overcome...)”: Non-government organizations, the state, and human security in India •

‘9/11’, Afghanistan, and South Asia: Post-Taliban Afghanistan and South Asian security •

South-west Asia after the Taliban • The changing geopolitics of Central, West and South Asia

after 11 September • Towards a brighter future: Pakistan and India: The way forward • India-

Pakistan relations: Ways forward

Ramesh Thakur and Oddny Wiggen, editors

ISBN 92-808-1093-6 • paper

• 460pp • US$43.00

Publication date: March 2004

Ramesh Thakur, is Vice

Rector of the United Nations

University, Tokyo and Head of

the Peace and Governance

Programme. Oddny Wiggen,

is an academic programme

associate in the Peace and

Governance Programme of the

United Nations University.

Contributors:

Ramesh Thakur • Oddny

Wiggen • I.K. Gujral • Sartaj

Aziz • Stephen P. Cohen •

Christophe Carle • Lok Raj

Baral • Kingsley de Silva •

Lt.-Gen. Satish Nambiar •

Brig.-Gen. Syed Roomy •

Hafiz Pasha • Farooq Sobhan •

Riffat Zaman • Gautam

Adhikari • Paikiasothy

Saravanamuttu • Adeel Zafar •

Awais Piracha • Adil Najam •

Ashok Swain • Niaz A. Naik •

Nihal Rodrigo • Manzoor

Ahmed • Santosh Mehrotra •

Rekha Datta • Samina Ahmed •

Mohammed Ayoob • Amin

Saikal • Samina Yasmeen •

G Parthasarathy

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AgrodiversityLearning From Farmers Across the World

Through generations of innovation and

experiment, smallholder farmers have nurtured a

rich diversity of plants and animals, both wild

and domesticated. Most academic literature

emphasizes the accelerated loss of biodiversity,

but this book describes how large numbers of

smallholder farmers are conserving biodiversity

in their farmland and surrounds. It is based on

the fieldwork of the United Nations University

Project on People, Land Management and

Environmental Change (PLEC), which has

observed how farmers use their knowledge and

skills to manage diversity and also to manage

their resources conservatively and profitably.

PLEC members, coordinators and advisers work out of over 60 institutions in

Brazil, China, Ghana, Guinée, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Papua New Guinea,

Peru, Thailand, Tanzania, Uganda, Britain, the United States, Japan and

Australia. The work of these country groups is the main subject matter of this

book. Because of the nature of its work, PLEC has focused on particular small

areas in each country, where scientists are able to develop close relations with the

farmers, and to learn about their management methods and assist them in many

technical ways. In these areas PLEC looks for exceptional or expert farmers who

manage resources better than others. This book highlights their positive

experiences in order to draw lessons in support of “agrodiversity” as a

developmental approach to policies for reversing loss of biodiversity, controlling

land degradation, and improving small farmers’ livelihoods. Learning from

farmers has been a valuable and important outcome of PLEC, and it has a great

deal of potential application to other situations.

Table of Contents:

Introduction • The evolution of PLEC’s work, 1992-2002 • How PLEC worked toward its

objectives • Brazil (Amazonia) • Ghana • Guinée • Uganda • Kenya • Tanzania • China • Papua

New Guinea • Peru • Mexico • Jamaica • Thailand • Findings from the PLEC Project

Harold Brookfield, Helen Parsons, and Muriel Brookfield,

editors

ISBN 92-808-1087-1 • paper

• 372pp • US$32.00

Publication date: September

2003

Harold Brookfield, Senior

Adviser of People, Land

Management and

Environmental Change

(PLEC). Helen Parsons is joint

editor of PLECserv and of

PLEC News and Views.

Muriel Brookfield is engaged

in ornithological and

environmental research.

Contributors: Harold Brookfield • HelenParsons • Muriel Brookfield •Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez •David G. McGrath • TerezaXimenes • Edwin A. Gyasi •William Oduro • GordanaKranjac-Berisavljevic • J.SaaDittoh • William Asante •Ibrahima Boiro • A. KarimBarry • Amadou Diallo • JoyTumuhairwe • Charles Nkwiine• John Kawongolo • John N. N.Kang’ara • Ezekiel H. Ngoroi •Charles M. Rimui • KajujuKaburu • Barrak O.Okoba •Fidelis Kaihura • the lateEdward Kaitaba • EdinaKahembe • Charles Ngilorit •Dao Zhiling • Guo Huijun •Chen Aiguo • Fu Yongneng •Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez • PilarParedes del Aguila • RobertoRomero • Michelle Rios •Mario Pinèdo-Panduro •Octavio Castelán-Ortega •Carlos González Esquivel •Carlos Arriaga Jordán •Cristina Chávez Mejia •Elizabeth Thomas-Hope •Balfour Spence • KanokRerkasem

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Agricultural Biodiversity in Smallholder Farmsof East Africa

This book documents how the smallholder

farmers of East Africa – in Kenya, Tanzania and

Uganda – are playing their part in the global

agenda for the conservation, sustainable use and

the equitable sharing of the benefits of

biodiversity. The United Nations University

PLEC project, funded by the Global

Environment Facility under the provisions for

the Convention on Biological Diversity, is

showing how the accumulated knowledge and

experience of smallholders and their diverse

practices leads to clear benefits for both

biodiversity and society. This book draws on

lessons learned from farmers, researchers, extension staff, policy-makers and aid

agencies co-operating and actively supporting PLEC demonstration sites in East

Africa. It shows the very real potential of learning from farmers and basing policy

on tried and tested ways of managing complex agricultural systems.

Table of Contents:

PART I: Introduction to agricultural biodiversity in East Africa • Agricultural biodiversity in

East Africa – Introduction and acknowledgements • Managing biodiversity in agricultural

systems • Agro-biodiversity potential of small-holder farms in a dissected highland plateau of

Western Uganda • Typical biodiversity in home gardens of Nduuri location, Runyenjes, Embu,

Kenya • PART II: Components of agricultural biodiversity • Spatial and temporal characteristics

of rainfall in Arumeru District, Arusha Region, Tanzania • The botanical knowledge of different

age groups of the Nduuri farming community, Embu, Kenya • Diversity of vegetables and fruits

and their utilisation among the Nduuri community of Embu, Kenya • The effect of fig trees

(Ficus Sycomorus) on soil quality and coffee yield: An investigation into a traditional

conservation practice in Embu District, Kenya • The role of livestock in soil fertility and

biodiversity change in Nduuri Embu, Kenya • Household diversity of small-holder farms of

Nduuri, Embu, Kenya • Socio-economic factors influencing agrobiodiversity and the livelihoods

of small-scale farmers of Arumeru, Tanzania • Agro-diversity of banana (Musa Spp) production

in Bushwere, Mbarara District, Uganda • Changes in land use and its impact on agricultural

biodiversity in Arumeru, Tanzania • PART III: Farmers’ perspectives • Introduction to Part III •

Participatory technology development and dissemination: A methodology to capture the farmers’

perspective • Experimenting with agro-biodiversity conservation technologies: My experiences

with Setaria grass in a banana plantation in Uganda • The shared activities of PLEC farmers in

Arumeru, Tanzania • My experience as a farmer with the KARI PLEC Team • Agrobiodiversity

conservation for the promotion of apiculture and household welfare in Uganda • Farmers’

evaluation of soil management practices used in Mbarara District, South Western Uganda •

PART IV: Policy recommendations • Technical and policy recommendations for sustainable

management of agricultural biodiversity: Recommendations for Tanzania with contributions

from meeting participants • Developing policy and technical recommendations for the

conservation of agricultural biodiversity in Uganda

Fidelis Kaihura and Michael Stocking, editors

ISBN 92-808-1088-X • paper

• 304pp • US$32.00

Publication date: September

2003

Fidelis Kaihura is Senior

Agricultural Research Officer

in Natural Resources

Management at Lake Zone

Agricultural Research and

Development Institute at

Ukiriguru, Mwanza, Tanzania.

Michael Stocking is Professor

of Natural Resource

Development and Dean of the

School of Development

Studies, University of East

Anglia, Norwich, United

Kingdom.

Contributors:

Michael Stocking • Fidelis.B.S.

Kaihura • Liang Luohui • Joy

K. Tumuhairwe • Charles

Nkwiine • John N.N Kang’ara •

Kajuju Kaburu • Charles

M.Rimui • Robert M.L

Kingamkono • Ezekiah H

Ngoroi • Seth Amboga •

Kaburu M’Ribu • Barrack

Okoba • Julius M. Muturi •

Francis K. Ngugi • Immaculate

Mwangi • Essau E Mwalukasa

• Edina Kahembe • Chris

Gumisiriza • Francis K.

Tumuhairwe • Jerry A. Ngailo •

Freddy P. Baijukya • Barnabas

J. Kiwambo • Frank Muhwezi •

Freda P. Kipuyo • Gidiel L.

Loivoi • Kisyoki Sambweti •

Bernard Njeru Njiru • Fred

Tuhimbisibwe • Jovia M.

Nuwagaba • Manzi N.

Mangheni • Deusdedit M.

Rugangira • John B.

Kawangolo

Broadening Asia’s Security Discourse andAgenda

Political, Social and Environmental Perspectives

The security discourse is dominated by the

traditional state-centric paradigm which

privileges the territorial defence of a country

against armed attack from foreign countries. For

most people in Asia – a continent that counts for

more than half of the world’s population – the

greatest threats to security come from disease,

hunger, environmental contamination, crime and

localized violence. For some, a still greater threat

may come from their own government itself,

rather than from an ‘external’ adversary. The

citizens of states that are ‘secure’ according to

the concept of traditional security can be

perilously insecure in terms of their everyday reality.

Going beyond military threats and state-centric analysis, this book

demonstrates the importance of a broad security agenda that incorporates

political, economic, social and environmental dimensions as well as the many

linkages between them. It applies non-traditional security perspectives to a range

of human challenges across Asia, in the hope of encouraging a security discourse

where humans are at the vital core. It also explores the potential practical and

conceptual benefits of non-traditional security thinking in a continent beset by

both conventional and non-traditional security challenges.

Table of Contents:

Non-traditional security in Asia Introduction • Social and economic perspectives:

Globalization and human development: The cases of Pakistan and India • Southeast Asia’s

embedded mercantilism in crisis: International strategies and domestic coalitions • Poverty as a

non-traditional security issue: Experiences of China’s partnership with multilateral donor

institutions on poverty alleviation • Governance: Security and governance in South Asia: Their

linkages • Governance in plural societies: Sri Lanka • Environment: Sustainable development &

human security: Lessons from South Asia • How critical is “environmental security” as a non-

traditional security issue in Northeast Asia? • A cultural theory perspective on environment and

security issues in Nepal • The Hydro-politics of the Mekong River Basin: Regional cooperation

and environmental security • Institutional security perspectives • Alternative security models:

Implications for ASEAN • Seeking non-traditional security in “traditional” ways: Northeast Asia

and emerging security challenges • Cooperation and institutional transformation in ASEAN:

Insights from the AFTA Project • Non-traditional security cooperation in Northeast Asia

Ramesh Thakur and Edward Newman, editors

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ISBN 92-808-1094-4 • paper

• 440pp • US$43.00

Publication date: May 2004

Ramesh Thakur is Vice

Rector of the United Nations

University, Tokyo and Head of

the Peace and Governance

Programme. Edward Newman

is an academic officer in the

Peace and Governance

Programme at the United

Nations University.

Contributors:

Tsuneo Akaha • Jennifer

Bennett • P.R. Chari • Melissa

Curley • Ajaya Dixit • Evelyn

Goh • Dipak Gyawali •

M. Shamsul Haque • Richard

W. Hu • Kanishka Jayasuriya •

Adil Najam • Helen Nesadurai

• Edward Newman •

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu •

Ramesh Thakur • William T.

Tow • Jayadeva Uyangoda •

Qingxin K. Wang

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Asia and Africa in the Global Economy

This book brings a crucial issue to the fore: how

to manage the process of strategic integration

into the global economy.

The performance of Asian and African

economies over recent decades clearly shows

that engagement with the global economy can

play a key role in advancing development.

Researchers and policymakers have paid

particular attention to the marked divergence in

growth in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan

Africa. One of the most obvious differences in

their performance and economic structure has

been the extent of their participation in the

global economy. While many East Asian economies have accelerated their

integration into the world economy and upgraded their mode of linkages, the

majority of sub-Saharan African countries have been increasingly marginalized.

Asia and Africa in the Global Economy systematically deciphers the different

experiences in the two regions as they have interacted with an ever-changing

global economy. It provides a comprehensive coverage of policies and

institutions, focusing on the key sectors of primary exports, resource processing

for export, manufacturing, foreign direct investment, financial flows and official

development assistance. Contributors include some of the leading scholars from

Southeast Asia and Africa.

This detailed comparative analysis comes at a time when developing

countries continue to search for strategies to strengthen their participation in the

global economy – and bring more widespread and sustainable benefits to their

peoples.

Table of Contents:

Introduction • The dynamics of globalization: Eight sceptical theses • Economic policies and

external performance in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa • Governments and external

performance in Africa • Local entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa:

Networks and linkages to the global economy • Resource exports and resource processing for

export in Southeast Asia • Primary exports and primary processing for export in sub-Saharan

Africa • Export-oriented industrialisation and foreign direct investment in the ASEAN countries

• Export-oriented industrialisation and foreign direct investment in Africa • Management of

financial flows in Southeast Asia • Globalization of African financial markets • Aid and

development: What can Africa learn from the macroeconomics of foreign aid in some Southeast

Asian economies? • Foreign aid, debt, and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences and

challenges • From recovery to accelerated development: Some key issues for twenty-first-century

Africa

Ernest Aryeetey, Julius Court, Machiko Nissanke, and

Beatrice Weder, editors

ISBN 92-808-1089-8 • paper

• 400pp • US$42.00

Publication date: September

2003

Ernest Aryeetey is a professor

of economics at the Institute of

Statistical, Social and

Economic Research (ISSER),

University of Ghana. Julius

Court is a research officer at

the Overseas Development

Institute, London. Machiko

Nissanke is a reader in the

Department of Economics at

the School of Oriental and

African Studies, University of

London. Beatrice Weder is a

professor in the Department of

Economics at the University of

Mainz.

Contributors

Ernest Aryeetey • Julius Court

• Machiko Nissanke • Beatrice

Weder • Deborah Brautigam •

Laurence Harris • Jomo

Sundaram. • William Lyakurwa

• Michael Rock • Delphin

Rwegasira • Lemma Senbet •

Charles Soludo • Thee Kian

Wie • Pakorn Vichyanond •

Sam Wangwe

Emerging Forces in EnvironmentalGovernance

Norichika Kanie and Peter M. Haas, editors

N e w T i t l e s 9

ISBN 92-808-1095-2 • paper

• 380pp • US$36.00

Publication date: June 2004

International governance increasingly occurs

through complex synergies between networks of

actors across levels of international politics.

While current governance arrangements remain a

crazy quilt of overlapping activities, this volume

seeks to describe and analyze the activities of

many new actors in international politics in the

realm of sustainable development. It highlights

many of their activities, difficulties, challenges,

and critiques of their role in international

governance, as well as raising new theoretical

and empirical puzzles for the future study of

globalization and the formulation of policies for

global issues.

This book addresses the various new channels of multilateral environmental

governance that have appeared within an increasingly globalized international

system at the beginning of 21st century. While states ultimately continue to make

and enforce international law, they are increasingly dependent upon multilateral

institutions, organized science, NGOs and social movements, and business and

industry for formulating their views and for conducting policy. It is the emerging

forces emanating from this multiplicity of actors that facilitate institutional

synergisms in environmental governance. This volume focuses on clarifying the

key actors and the governance functions they perform in addressing

environmental threats.

Table of Contents:

Foreword • Introduction • Multilateral institutions: Multilateral environmental institutions and

co-ordinating mechanisms • Consolidating global environmental governance: New lessons from

the GEF? • The effectiveness of WTO and WIPO: Lessons for environmental governance? •

Multi-level governance: The case for regional environmental organizations • Global

environmental governance in terms of vertical linkages • Science policy interface for

environmental governance: Science policy for multilateral environmental governance • IPCC:

its roles in international negotiation and in domestic decision making on climate change policies

• NGO and Environmental Governance: Institutionalization of NGO involvement in policy

functions for global environmental governance • Civil society protest and participation: Civic

engagement within the multilateral governance regime • Business/industry and environmental

governance: Balancing TNCs, the states and the international system in global environmental

governance: A critical perspective • The private business sector in global environmental

diplomacy • Conclusion: Institutional design and institutional reform for sustainable

development

Norichika Kanie is an

associate professor of

International Relations at the

Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Peter M. Haas is Professor of

Political Science at the

University of Massachusetts at

Amherst.

Contributors:

Norichika Kanie • Peter M.

Haas • Laura B. Campbell •

Dana R. Fisher • Harris

Gleckman • Toru Iwama •

Yasuko Kameyama • Satoko

Mori • Craig N. Murphy •

Jonathan R. Strand • Mikoto

Usui • Jacob Werksman

1 0 N e w T i t l e s

Tests of Global Governance Canadian Diplomacy and United Nations World

Conferences

Tests of Global Governance: Canadian

Diplomacy and United Nations World

Conferences provides a detailed examination of

UN World Conferences with respect to the

interface between diplomatic method and new

forms of global governance. Because of the

complex dynamics involved in these large

international conferences, this book highlights a

number of important theoretical debates central

to the study of international relations. On a case

study basis the work demonstrates that global

governance is a differentiated multi-spectral site

of activity within which states and non-state

actors alike, particularly NGOs, play vital, often conflicting roles.

The role of Canada and Canadians is given special attention as both a unique

and representative sample of how this dual interplay between diplomacy and

global governance and state and society-craft has played out over the past decade

or so with respect to the UN World Conferences. The main focus is on the span

of activity from the 1992 Rio UNCED conference, through the 1993 Vienna

Conference on Human Rights, the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and

Development, the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, and the 1995

Beijing Conference on Women, to the 2001 Durban World Conference on

Racism.

The picture that emerges, while not translating into a complete recipe for a

shift towards democratic governance, suggests a deepening network of

institutions, actors, and organizations forming the complex regimes that govern

the major arenas of world politics. At a country-specific level, the analysis

supports the view that a deep residue of multilateralism still exists in Canada but

argues that this tradition faces on-going challenges from a variety of sources.

Table of Contents:

Questions of diplomacy: Opening up the debate • Questions of partnership: Exploring the nexus

between statecraft and society-craft • Questions of leadership: The roles of prime ministers

Mulroney and Chrétien • Questions of discipline: Imposing or negotiation of the system of

governance? • Questions of sovereignty: An evasive and estranged diplomacy? • Questions of

civilization: The Cairo Conference on Population and Development • Questions of difference:

Women’s ownership of the Beijing Conference • Questions of value with respect to Durban and

beyond: Anomalous or end of the life cycle?

Andrew F. Cooper

ISBN 92-808-1096-0 • paper

• 400pp • US$38.00

Publication date: June 2004

Andrew F. Cooper, is a

professor of political science,

and Associate Director at the

Centre for International

Governance Innovation, at the

University of Waterloo,

Ontario.

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The DanubeEnvironmental Monitoring of an International River

The Danube river is one of the world’s greatest

international freshwater resources. It stretches

halfway across Europe and passes through 11

countries. Its catchment is shared by 17 nations,

many of whom are new members of the

expanded European Union.

This book focuses on the disputed

Gabc̆íkovo-Nagymaros Project on the Danube

between Hungary and the Slovak Republic. It

examines the history and progress of the case

from the International Court of Justice to the

subsequent agreement to joint monitoring and

assessment of the environmental implications. It

uses a multidisciplinary methodology combining approaches derived from natural

resources management, geography, international relations, political science, and

international law.

Environmental monitoring is essential to resolving transboundary water

conflicts and the authors discuss the extensive monitoring programmes

implemented by the two countries, attempts to link various causes and effects of

the project, and how monitoring can help enhance public participation for

sustainable solutions. The Danube examines the opportunities and constraints of

using environmental monitoring as a tool for decision-making in the sustainable

management of shared freshwater resources in the context of an international

environmental conflict, and it proposes possibilities for optimising the

environmental monitoring of the middle reaches of the Danube.

The authors conclude that in view of the recent eastward expansion of the

European Union, the environmental monitoring programme developed in

response to Gabc̆íkovo-Nagymaros Project should be integrated into the

environmental management of the Danube River Basin to contribute to its

sustainable development.

Based on original documents and research, and including numerous maps,

figures, and authentic appendices accompanying the study, this book is a useful

reference on the applications of environmental monitoring and data sharing for

improving the management of international waters.

Table of Contents:

Chronology of Events • Introduction • Transboundary river problems • The Gabc̆íkovo-

Nagymaros Project • Environmental monitoring of an international river • Joint environmental

monitoring – Evaluation and concluding remarks • References

Libor Jansky, Masahiro Murakami, and Nevelina I. Pachova

ISBN 92-808-1061-8 • paper

• 260pp • US$25.00

Publication date: May 2004

Libor Jansky is Senior

Academic Programme Officer,

Environment and Sustainable

Development, at United

Nations University. Masahiro

Murakami is Professor of

International Development at

the Department of

Infrastructure Systems

Engineering, Kochi University

of Technology, Japan.

Nevelina I. Pachova is a

Research Assistant in the

United Nations University

Environment and Sustainable

Development Programme.

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Managing Agrodiversity the Traditional WayLessons from West Africa in Sustainable Use of

Biodiversity and Related Natural Resources

Drawing on findings of nearly ten years of

United Nations University Project on People,

Land Management and Environmental Change

(UNU/PLEC) multidisciplinary, participatory

research work in West Africa (mainly Ghana),

this book shows how, traditionally, farmers

cultivate and conserve biodiversity while, at the

same time, using the land for food production. It

highlights PLEC interventions for sustaining

agrodiversity for rural livelihoods, as it does

lessons for teaching, policy and development

planning.

The book would appeal to policy makers and

practitioners, and to university students and teachers, including those of

agriculture, social science, biological science and others relating to environmental

or natural resources management and sustainable development.

Table of Contents:

Preface • Part I: Methodological approaches and knowledge systems: Methodological

approaches to the book • Philosophical foundations of biophysical resource use with special

reference to Ghana • Traditional methods of resource assessment relative to the scientific •

Farmer strategies of managing agrodiversity in a variable climate in PLEC demonstration sites in

southern Ghana • Expert farmers and demonstration sites in conservation of biodiversity • Part

II: Cropping Systems and Related Case Studies: Management regimes in southern Ghana •

Yams: traditional ways of managing their diversity for food security in southern Ghana •

Sustaining diversity of yams in northern Ghana • Conservation of indigenous rice varieties by

women of Gore in the northern savanna zone, Ghana • Vegetables: traditional ways of managing

their diversity for food security in southern Ghana • The proka mulching and no-burn system: A

case study of Tano-Odumasi and Jachie • Managing the home garden for food security and as a

germplasm bank • Management of trees in association with crops in traditional agroforestry

systems • Preliminary observations on effects of traditional farming practices on growth and

yield of crops • Effects of four indigenous trees canopy covers on soil fertility in a Ghanaian

savanna • Comparative management of savanna woodland in Ghana and Guinea: a preliminary

analysis • Agrodiversity within and without conserved forests for enhancing rural livelihoods •

Part III: Social dimensions of resource management: Aspects of resource tenure that

conserve biodiversity: the case of southern and northern Ghana • Resource access and

distribution and the use of land in Tano-Odumase, central Ghana • The women environmental

pace setters of Jachie • Part IV: Conclusion: Lessons learnt and future research directions

Edwin A. Gyasi, Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic,

Essie T. Blay and William Oduro, editors

ISBN 92-808-1098-7 • paper

• 320pp • US$ 32.00

Publication date: June 2004

Edwin A. Gyasi is a professor

of geography and resource

development, University of

Ghana, Legon, Accra.

Gordana Kranjac-

Berisavljevic is Head,

Department of Agricultural

Mechanization and Irrigation

Technology, University for

Development Studies, Tamale,

Ghana. Essie T. Blay is an

associate professor,

Department of Crop Science,

University of Ghana, Legon,

Accra. William Oduro is

Director, Institute of

Renewable Natural Resources,

Kwame Nkrumah University of

Science and Technology,

Kumasi.

Contributors:

Edwin A. Gyasi • Alfred

Oteng-Yeboah • Stephen

Nkansa Buabeng • Edward

Ofori-Sarpong • Felix Asante •

Essie T. Blay • Gordana

Kranjac-Berisavljevic • B. Z.

Gandaa • B. Tanzubil • C.

Quansah • W. Oduro • Lewis

Enu-Kwesi • Vincent Von

Vordzogbe • J. A. Poku • L.

Asafo • E. Laing • Charles

Anane-Sakyi • A. Sadik

Abdulai • J. Saa Dittoh • D.

Amirou • D. Daouda • Ben D.

Ofori • John Heloo • J. B. Ofori

• Emmanuel Nartey • William

J. Asante • J. A. Bakang •

K. A. Nkyi • Olivia Agbenyega

• William Oduro

R e c e n t l y P u b l i s h e d 1 3

ISBN 92-808-1072-3 • paper •

260pp • US$21.95

East Asian Experience inEnvironmental GovernanceResponse in a Rapidly Developing Region

Zafar Adeel, editor

The East Asian region has seen considerable growth

in its economy, industrial base, and population in the

last two decades. Interestingly, all three of these

factors are often linked to over-exploitation and

degradation of environmental resources. East Asian

Experience in Environmental Governance provides a

broad-brush overview of the existing governance

regime that deals with the environmental challenges

in the region. Three sectors are selected for deeper

analysis: pesticide management; water quality and

resources management; and air pollution

management. These sectors are also closely linked to

the economic and industrial growth of the region.

The findings from this book, and the case studies

contained herein, can help in developing a

fundamental understanding about environmental

governance in terms of what works and what does not

in this region. Clearly, only effective and meaningful

environmental governance can ensure long-term

sustainability of the remarkable industrial and

economic growth observed in this region.

ISBN 92-808-1084-7 • paper •

260pp • US$21.95

Mangrove Management andConservationPresent and Future

Marta Vannucci, editor

A long-term management plan for the sustainable use

of mangrove ecosystems is urgently needed.

Monitoring, research, and evaluation are vital

components of a successful conservation strategy for

natural, managed, and man-made mangrove forests.

Mangrove Management and Conservation

presents the highlights of a workshop organized by

the United Nations University (Tokyo), the

International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems

(Japan), and the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere

programme (MAB), in March 2000.

The expert contributors to this volume outline the

key areas for future focus in the stewardship of this

vital ecosystem, including appropriate legislation,

community participation and empowerment,

management agreements between communities,

governments and NGOs, and local responsibility for

supervision and enforcement of rules and regulations.

An Action Plan for the worldwide conservation and

use of mangroves concludes the volume.

1 4 R e c e n t l y P u b l i s h e d

The Globalization of HumanRightsThe United Nations System in the Twenty-firstCentury

Jean-Marc Coicaud, Michael W. Doyle, andAnne-Marie Gardner, editors

The Globalization of Human Rights addresses

questions focusing on the imperatives of justice at the

national, regional, and international levels. The

examination of these imperatives of justice is

conducted through an analysis of rights, both civil and

political, and economic and social.

Any search for justice is based upon identifying

values that are viewed as so critical to the well-being

of humanity and the character of being human that

they are eventually institutionalized as rights. Such

rights become the basis upon which claims are made,

as well as the horizon of justice to which society and

institutions try to conform.

ISBN 92-808-1080-4 • paper •

220pp • US$26.95

ISBN 92-808-1079-0 • paper •

234pp • US$26.95

Regional PeacekeepersThe Paradox of Russian Peacekeeping

John Mackinlay and Peter Cross, editors

In the 1990s, while the Soviet Union disintegrated,

Russia continued to maintain its longstanding

obligations and strategic interests. Although no longer

lawfully constituted to intervene directly in the

conflicts that erupted in Georgia, Moldova, and

Tajikistan, Russian forces nevertheless influenced the

conduct of the conflict and, more overtly, the peace

process that followed. Regional Peacekeepers

investigates the Russian military presence in its

former Soviet territory, to determine whether these

forces have been genuinely peacekeeping or are in

fact a post-imperial presence that seeks to maintain

former strategic interests. The volume includes first

hand accounts of the CIS peacekeeping efforts in

South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Moldova, and Tajikistan.

R e c e n t l y P u b l i s h e d 1 5

ISBN 92-808-1070-7 • paper •

384pp • US$33.00

ISBN 92-808-1074-X • paper •

320pp • US$31.95

From Civil Strife to Civil SocietyCivil and Military Responsibilities in DisruptedStates

UNU Series on Foundations of Peace

William Maley, Charles Sampford, and RameshThakur, editors

The 1990s saw the United Nations, the militaries of

key member states, and NGOs increasingly entangled

in the complex affairs of disrupted states. Whether as

deliverers of humanitarian assistance or as agents of

political, social, and civic reconstruction, whether in

Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, or East Timor, these actors

have had to learn ways of interacting with each other

in order to optimize the benefits for the populations

they seek to assist. Yet the challenges have proved

daunting. Civil and military actors have different

organizational cultures and standard operating

procedures and are confronted with the need to work

together to perform tasks to which different actors

may attach quite different priorities.

From Civil Strife to Civil Society explores the

nature of these challenges, blending the experience of

scholars and practitioners.

Enhancing Global GovernanceTowards a New Diplomacy?

UNU Series on Foundations of Peace

Andrew F. Cooper, John English, and RameshThakur, editors

Enhancing Global Governance analyses the means by

which global governance has been promoted by

innovative diplomatic practices. What makes this

dynamic more compelling, and worthy of study, is

that the impetus for a new diplomacy has not emerged

on a top-down basis. Rather, the innovative drive has

been animated from different sources ‘from below’ in

the international architecture via a series of cross

cutting coalitions between and among ‘like-minded

states’ and civil society.

“A path breaking exploration of the changing

character of international politics. It addresses

the main facets of this emergent reality with

sophistication, clarity, social scientific

awareness, and a good balance between

grasping the constraints of the old order and

identifying the promise of the new possibilities.”

Richard Falk – Center of International

Studies, Princeton University

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Regionalism, Multilateralism, andEconomic IntegrationThe Recent Experience

Gary P. Sampson and Stephen Woolcock,editors

In recent years, the central question relating to

regional trade agreements has been whether or not

they have led to a new form of economic cooperation

by promoting deeper integration in the regulatory

structures of the participating countries. The answer

to this question has profound implications for the

future of multilateral cooperation through the World

Trade Organization (WTO) and international

economic relations generally.

Regionalism, Multilateralism, and Economic

Integration examines a number of very different

regional agreements and finds that there is no one

model for what constitutes deeper integration.

“...moves the debate forward into new territory...

A thought-provoking read for anyone with an

interest in the subject of regionalism and its

relationship to multilateralism.” Roderick

Abbott, Deputy Director General, World Trade

Organization

ISBN 92-808-1083-9 • paper •

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States, Markets, and Just GrowthDevelopment in the Twenty-first Century

The United Nations System in the Twenty-firstCentury

Atul Kohli, Chung-in Moon, and GeorgSørensen, editors

States, Markets, and Just Growth explores the

common concerns of developing countries in the

quest for just growth, while also emphasizing special

regional needs. The opening chapters provide a

synthetic overview of the pressing shared imperatives

of globalization, democracy, poverty, and inequality.

The chapters that follow analyze the record of

different regions and countries in achieving just

growth.

States, Markets, and Just Growth advances the

proposition that well organized states that

systematically incorporate popular concerns will

continue to be fundamental to the pursuit of just

growth in the new century.

R e c e n t l y P u b l i s h e d 1 7

Reforming Africa’s InstitutionsOwnership, Incentives, and Capabilities

Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa, editor

There is not a single African country that did not

attempt public sector reforms in the 1990s.

Reforming Africa’s Institutions looks at the extent

to which reforms undertaken in sub-Saharan Africa in

recent years have enhanced institutional capacities

across the breadth of government. To what extent

have reforms been internalized and defended by

governments? The authors also look specifically at

the impact of public sector reforms on these

economies and pose the question whether ‘ownership’

can be attained when countries continue to be heavily

dependent on external support.

ISBN 92-808-1082-0 • paper •

372pp • US$37.95

ISBN 92-808-1078-2 • paper •

252pp • US$21.95

Beyond ViolenceConflict Resolution Process in NorthernIreland

UNU Policy Perspectives

Mari Fitzduff

After almost thirty years of bloody conflict, the

opposing parties in Northern Ireland eventually

signed an agreement about how to share power, thus

bringing to an end the conflict that had claimed so

many lives and caused such human suffering. But

what brought the conflict to an end? And what were

the processes of conflict resolution that enabled

Northern Ireland to move beyond violence and agree

to such a settlement?

Author Mari Fitzduff was involved in many of

these processes and was a close observer of the

others. Drawing on her extensive experience, she

outlines the many strategic developments, arrived at

slowly and with difficulty over the years, that enabled

agreement to be reached.

[Recipient of the American Library

Association’s Prestigious Library Journal

Notable Government Documents Award 2002]

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Conflict PreventionPath to Peace or Grand Illusion?

UNU Series on Foundations of Peace

David Carment and Albrecht Schnabel, editors

Conflict Prevention evaluates the institutional record

on conflict prevention, identifies current trends in

conflict prevention practice, and makes

recommendations on improving organizational

capacity. This book brings together a diverse group of

individuals involved in conflict prevention activities;

scholars from developed and developing countries,

and practitioners with insights on the work of regional

organizations and the United Nations.

ISBN 92-808-1081-2 • paper •

308pp • US$31.95

ISBN 92-808-1085-5 • paper •

222pp • US$21.95

Democratization in the Middle EastExperiences, Struggles, Challenges

UNU Series on the Changing Nature of Democracy

Amin Saikal and Albrecht Schnabel, editors

Democratization in the Middle East addresses a

number of key issues determining the success or

failure of sustainable democratization in the region.

With the exception of Israel in certain specific ways,

the constituent states have yet to reach a level of

democratization that would guarantee a path towards

sustainable democracy and prevent a future return to

non-democratic governance, and de-secularization

and de-liberalization of the economy and society.

Peace dividends from sustained democratization

processes in the Middle East are still years away from

realization. If anything, movement towards political,

economic, and cultural liberalization has thus far

brought instability and violence to the region, as

traditional and religious values continue to clash with

secular ethics, norms, and practices.

R e c e n t l y P u b l i s h e d 1 9

International Waters in SouthernAfricaUNU Series on Water Resources Managementand Policy

Mikiyasu Nakayama, editor

Mikiyasu Nakayama was involved in the

establishment of a basin-wide management scheme

for the Zambesi river system. Political complexities

led to many difficulties in the development of the

action plan. In the region’s new political setting, all

countries can now participate in discussions on an

equal footing. This change may be interpreted as an

opportunity for greater participation, or as the

dangerous empowerment of self interest.

International Waters in Southern Africa examines

both the risks and opportunities for water

management in this new political environment.

ISBN 92-808-1077-4 • paper •

316pp • US$21.95

ISBN 92-808-1075-8 • paper •

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Global Governance and theUnited Nations SystemThe United Nations System in the Twenty-firstCentury

Volker Rittberger, editor

Global Governance and the United Nations System

offers a wide-ranging analysis of changing world

order at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It

examines the progression from international to global

governance, focusing on the fundamental change of

actors, agendas, collective decision making, and the

role of the United Nations system. Globalization does

not only mean a change of relationship between

governments and market forces. It also has important

implications for the identities and activities of

transnational social actors. International governance,

the authors argue, faces three different challenges: the

technological revolution; globalization; and the end of

the Cold War, leading to jurisdictional, operational,

incentive, and participatory gaps in governance which

international governance systems cannot adequately

cope with. In attempting to respond to these new

problems international governance systems have

engaged in a multifaceted move toward global

governance, reacting to these challenges, in part, by

transforming themselves.

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Trade, Environment, and theMillennium (2nd edition)

Gary P. Sampson and W. Bradnee Chambers,editors

The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of thekey issues of negotiation at the meeting of TradeMinisters in late 2001 in Qatar and well beyond.Resolving these issues is a precondition for thelaunching of a new round of multilateral tradenegotiations – something considered critical by manyWTO member governments in order to ensure a stablemultilateral trading system that fully represents theinterests of developing countries.

ISBN 92-808-1064-2 • paper • 452pp •

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Human Development and theEnvironment

Challenges for the United Nations in the NewMillennium

UNU Millennium Series

Hans van Ginkel, Brendan Barrett, JuliusCourt, and Jerry Velasquez, editors

Human Development and the Environment looks at theproblems, processes, and actors that constitute the milieufor human development and the environment in the newmillennium. It charts some of the major trends affectinghuman development: globalization; population;urbanization; poverty; equity; education; health; climatechange; biodiversity; desertification;international cooperation andinstitutions. The authors contend that itis unacceptable for over a billionpeople to be still living in abjectpoverty and without the means to anadequate livelihood.

ISBN 92-808-1069-3 • paper • 324pp •

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Featured TitleGlobal Environmental Risk

Jeanne X. Kasperson and Roger E. Kasperson, editors

Despite international initiatives such as the Earth Summit in 1992 andongoing efforts to implement the Kyoto Protocol, human activities continueto register a destructive toll on the planetary environment. At root, researchon global environmental risk seeks new pathways for reversingunsustainable trends, curtailing ongoing destructive activities, and creating alife-sustaining planet. This book takes stock of the distinctive challengesposed by global environmental risks, the capacity of knowledge systems toidentify and characterize such risks, and the competence of human society tomanage the unprecedented complexity. Particular attention trains onengaging, in ways conducive to enhancing social learning and adaptation,the large uncertainties inherent in these risks.

ISBN 92-808-1027-8 • paper • 592pp • US$39.95

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Inter-linkages

The Kyoto Protocol and the InternationalTrade and Investment Regimes

UNU Policy Perspectives

W. Bradnee Chambers, editor

In 1997 delegates to the third session of the Conferenceof the Parties to the UN Framework Convention onClimate Change (UNFCCC), agreed by consensus toadopt the Kyoto Protocol under which industrializedcountries would reduce their combined greenhouse gasemissions by an average 5.2% from their 1992 levels. Tohave any hope of achieving these emission reductionsand averting global climate catastrophe will require afundamental shift in the way in which energy isproduced and the way it is used. Thisfactor, in itself, is enough to catapultthe Protocol out of the purelyenvironmental realm and into thedomain of global economics.

La Niña and Its ImpactsFacts and Speculation

Michael H. Glantz, editor

La Niña and Its Impacts is based on a meeting of

researchers, forecasters, and users of La Niña

forecasts, held at the U.S. National Center for

Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. La

Niña, the result of air-sea interaction, can briefly be

described as the appearance of cold surface water in

the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.

While people around the globe have become familiar

with El Niño and its impacts, its counterpart, La Niña,

is not so well known. Researchers at

this La Niña Summit indicated that

for many societies La Niña events

can be as devastating as those of El

Niño.

Cities and the Environment

New Approaches for Eco-Societies

Takashi Inoguchi, Edward Newman, and GlenPaoletto, editors

This volume identifies and conceptualizes the ideal ofurban eco-societies, embracing their technological,political, and sociological dimensions and focusing onbroad but practical lifestyle changes. It outlines theinnovative approaches used in partnerships amongdisparate actors and the widening process of cooperationon these issues that transcends national boundaries.

ISBN 92-808-1023-5 • paper • 368pp •

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Sustainable Development of theGanges-Brahmaputra-MeghnaBasins

UNU Series on Water Resources ManagementAnd Policy

Asit K. Biswas and Juha I. Uitto, editors

In Sustainable Development of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basins, leading technocrats andintellectuals discuss how, through cooperation betweenBangladesh, India, and Nepal, and by taking a holisticdevelopment approach, the quality of life of the peopleof the Basin could be improved significantly within areasonable timeframe.

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Transboundary Freshwater DisputeResolution

Theory, Practice, and Annotated References

UNU Series on Water Resources Managementand Policy

Heather L. Beach, Jesse Hamner, J. JosephHewitt, Edy Kaufman, Anja Kurki, Joe A.Oppenheimer, and Aaron T. Wolf, editors

This book provides a comprehensive review of therelevant literature on managing conflicts stemming fromthe quantity and quality problems of water around theworld. So far, few comprehensive and interdisciplinaryanalyses of such international surface water conflictshave been produced.

ISBN 90-808-1038-3 • paper • 336pp •

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Water for Urban Areas

Challenges and Perspectives

UNU Series on Water Resources Managementand Policy

Juha I. Uitto and Asit K. Biswas, editors

For the first time in history half of the world’spopulation is living in cities. By the year 2025, it isestimated that more than two-thirds will be urbandwellers. While the fastest growth of cities is takingplace in the developing world, urbanization is a globalphenomenon, closely related to environmental issues.The rapid growth of urban centres will place tremendousstress on the environment and pose formidable problemsof social and institutional change, infrastructuredevelopment, and pollution control.

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Water Management in Islam

UNU Series on Water Resources ManagementAnd Policy

Naser Faruqui, Asit K. Biswas, and MuradBino, editors

This book presents Islamic perspectives on a number ofproposed water-management policies, including waterdemand management, wastewater reuse, and highertariffs. The book opens avenues for a wider dialogueamongst researchers working at identifying the mostpromising water management policies, adds to ourknowledge of some of the influences on formal policyand informal practice, and makes these ideals availableto a broader public.

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Management of Latin AmericanRiver Basins

Amazon, Plata, and São Francisco

UNU Series on Water Resources Managementand Policy

Asit K. Biswas, Newton V. Cordeiro, BeneditoP.F. Braga, and Cecilia Tortajada, editors

Increasing populations, the environmental stresses ofeconomic development and water-related public healthrisks make sustainable water management increasinglycomplex. As per-capita demand for water in developingcountries is increasing, analysis indicates that the cost offuture water source development will be double to triplethe cost of similar projects in the current decade.

This book gathers expert analysesof issues surrounding three of LatinAmerica’s largest and most importantrivers, including inter-state and intra-state conflicts over their fair andsustainable use.

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Central Eurasian Water Crisis

Caspian, Aral, and Dead Seas

UNU Series on Water Resources Managementand Policy

Iwao Kobori and Michael H. Glantz, editors

This book’s title reflects the global awareness thatvarious regions increasingly face problems of waterquality and quantity. This work focuses on three suchregions: the Dead Sea, the Aral Sea, and the CaspianSea. Researchers from various physical and socialscience disciplines identify water-related problems andthe prospects for resolving them in each region.

ISBN 92-808-0925-3 • paper • 212pp •

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Managing Water for Peace in theMiddle East

Alternative Strategies

Masahiro Murakami

The author highlights the economic and environmentalgains of co-generation applications and the political,economic, and technical viability of the strategic use ofsuch sources as brackish water, seawater, and reclaimedwaste water.

A variety of alternatives for the transboundarytransport of water are also detailed. The book features aplan for the joint development of the Jordan River, theDead Sea, and the Aqaba region.“This book is probably the most comprehensive

publication available on the subject of

water resources in the Middle East.”

Natural Resources Forum

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Hydropolitics Along the JordanRiver

Scarce Water and its Impact on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Aaron T. Wolf

“This book ... serves as an excellent international

watershed case study for advanced undergraduates and

graduate students. Additionally, it serves as a strong

example of a thorough research project within an

interdisciplinary framework.” Water Resources

Development

ISBN 92-808-1047-2 • paper • 314pp •

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Earth Negotiations

Analyzing Thirty Years of EnvironmentalDiplomacy

Pamela S. Chasek

Earth Negotiations develops a phased-process modelthat can enable greater understanding of the process bywhich international environmental agreements arenegotiated. By breaking down the negotiating processinto a series of phases and turning points, it is easier toanalyze the roles of the different actors, the managementof issues, the formation of groups and coalitions, and theart of consensus building. Six discernible phases and fiveassociated turning points within the process ofmultilateral environmental negotiation are identified andexplained.

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The Global Environment in theTwenty-first Century

Prospects for International Cooperation

The United Nations System in the Twenty-firstCentury

Pamela S. Chasek, editor

The Global Environment in the Twenty-first Centuryexamines the roles of different actors in the formulationof international and national environmental policy. Itstarts from the premise that while cooperation amongnation states has proven to be necessary to address manytransboundary environmental issues, virtually all policiesmust be implemented at the national or local level.

ISBN 92-808-1029-4 • paper • 476pp •

US$34.95

Crucibles of Hazard

Mega-cities and Disasters in Transition

James K. Mitchell, editor

This collaborative study of environmental risks in ten ofthe world’s major cities was led by the InternationalGeographical Union’s Study Group on the DisasterVulnerability of Mega-cities. Geographers, planners andother experts examine the hazard experiences of casestudy cities and analyse their future risks. The authorsconclude that the natural disaster potential of the biggestcities is expanding at a pace which far exceeds the rate ofurbanization.“A great contribution to disaster studies.” David A.

McEntire, University of North Texas

ISBN 92-808-0987-3 • paper • 552pp •

US$34.95

The Long Road to Recovery

Community Responses to Industrial Disaster

James K. Mitchell, editor

This book is about community responses to types ofindustrial disasters that, going far beyond routinemishaps, constitute “surprise” disasters. These disastersare producing unprecedented consequences, and they areemerging faster and lasting longer than ever before.Examples include mercury contamination in Minamata,Japan; underground fires in Centralia, Pennsylvania; theairborne dioxin release at Seveso, Italy; the poison gascloud in Bhopal, India; the nuclear reactor fire atChernobyl, Ukraine; the destruction of Iran’s oilfacilities during the war with Iraq; and the Exxon Valdezoil spill in Alaska.

ISBN 92-808-0926-1 • paper • 308pp •

US$30.00

ISBN 92-808-0965-2 • paper • 372pp •

US$34.95

Conducting Environmental ImpactAssessment for DevelopingCountries

Prasad Modak and Asit K. Biswas

The book includes an introduction to EIA and sectionson its process, methods, and tools. It discusses theimplementation of specific environmental managementmeasures and the need for their constant monitoring. Thebook also reviews the process of translating andcommunicating the findings of an EIA study to decisionmakers and the public, and outlines the writing andreviewing of an EIA report. It examines emerging trendsin EIA and concludes with a number of illustrative casestudies.

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Environment, Energy, and Economy

Strategies for Sustainability

Yoichi Kaya and Keiichi Yokobori, editors

This book discusses short-term and long-term measuresfor the economies and the direction of development inmany countries. It emphasizes such issues as the growingimportance of developing countries in energyconsumption and increased stress on the environment;the likelihood of growing energy requirements andassociated environmental burdens, including highergreenhouse gas emissions; and the impact ofdeforestation and desertification on rural societies indeveloping countries.

ISBN 92-808-0911-3 • paper • 392pp •

US$29.95

Local Economic Development

A Geographical Comparison of RuralCommunity Restructuring

Cecily Neil and Markku Tykkyläinen, editors

Restructuring is a widely used concept that denotesrapid, and often far-reaching, socio-economictransformation processes in communities, localities,regions, and nations. This book seeks to explain theprocesses of restructuring in rural communities, focusingon the trends of the 1990s.

Case studies from Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria,Russia, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, the United States, VietNam, and Australia demonstrate that communities andentire regions are adapting continuously to changes ineconomic conditions.

ISBN 92-808-0998-9 • paper • 384pp •

US$24.95

Eco-restructuring

Implications for Sustainable Development

Robert U. Ayres and Paul M. Weaver, editors

This study provides a significant contribution to theliterature on sustainability by identifying, on a sectoralbasis, the critical issues facing the world as a whole, andthe technical feasibility of addressing them. A newparadigm of eco-restructuring for sustainabledevelopment is introduced, involving shifts intechnology, economic activities and lifestyles needed toharmonize human activities with natural systems.

ISBN 92-808-0984-9 • paper • 416pp •

US$29.95

ISBN 92-808-1060-X • paper • 536pp •

US$37.95

Globalization and the Sustainabilityof Cities in the Asia Pacific Region

Fu-chen Lo and Peter J. Marcotullio, editors

In this volume, scholars from around the region analysethe impacts of globalization on cities in the Asia Pacific.This collection of essays forms a useful, comprehensive,and ambitious study, focusing on the region’s specificurban concerns and on broader theoretical issuessurrounding social and environmental conditions inmajor metropolitan centres.

Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in theAsia Pacific Region demonstrates the growinginterconnections among cities in the region that havecome about as a result of globalization. It raisesimminent priorities for the study of social andenvironmental conditions as well aseconomic growth in cities. Sustainableurban development requires more thangood management and local politics;increasingly it demands national,regional, and global interventions.

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Globalization and the World ofLarge Cities

Fu-chen Lo and Yue-man Yeung, editors

This book has built upon the results of a series ofregional research projects focused on mega-citiessponsored by the United Nations University in the 1990s.Some of the findings are featured in this volume,forming a basis upon which a comprehensive survey ofhow globalization has impacted upon urban growth andstructures in different parts of the world is constructed.

This work is a major contribution to the study ofurbanization and globalization. It should appeal toscholars, planners, and policy makers in developed anddeveloping countries.

ISBN 92-808-0999-7 • paper • 536pp •

US$34.95

Emerging World Cities in PacificAsia

Fu-chen Lo and Yue-Man Yeung, editors

The book provides a comprehensive appraisal of theinterplay between global structural adjustments and thechanging role and configuration of Asia’s world cities atthe close of the twentieth century, with emphasis on thefunctional importance and complexity of world cities inthe global and regional economies.

ISBN 92-808-0907-5 • paper • 528pp •

US$35.00

The Mega-city in Latin America

Alan Gilbert, editor

With chapters on each of Latin America’s six largestcities (Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio deJaneiro, Lima, and Santa Fé de Bogotá), this bookfocuses on the regions’ demography of urban growth,public administration, transportation, land, housing, andinfrastructure.

ISBN 92-808-0935-0 • paper • 284pp •

US$30.00

Mega-city Growth and the Future

Roland J. Fuchs, Ellen Brennan, JosephChamie, Fu-chen Lo, and Juha I. Uitto, editors

A group of leading scholars and planners from thedeveloped and developing countries, and officials fromthe World Bank and the Population Division of theUnited Nations examine a range of issues related to themega-city phenomenon. This study will be of interest notonly to demographers, urban geographers, economists,and other scholars but also to planners and practitionersinvolved with urban development.“A collection of very good papers ... the issues raised and

the prescriptions offered should be pondered by those

engaged in the struggle to plan, build and manage these

gigantic cities.” The Times Higher Education

Supplement

ISBN 92-808-0820-6 • paper • 440pp •

US$35.00

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Population, Land Management, andEnvironmental Change

Juha I. Uitto and Akiko Ono, editors

Agricultural development that is environmentally,socially, economically, and culturally sustainable isessential for food production for the increasing worldpopulation. The issues pertaining to the so-calledpopulation-environment nexus are at the very heart of thecurrent debate on sustainable development. The authorsdraw extensively upon field research carried out in thetropical and subtropical regions of South-East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Amazon.

ISBN 92-808-0956-3 • paper • 92pp •

US$15.00

The Fragile Tropics of Latin America

Sustainable Management of ChangingEnvironments

Toshie Nishizawa and Juha I. Uitto, editors

The major dilemma facing Latin America is the need toexploit natural resources for economic development andthe equally pressing need to find alternatives toprevailing destructive models of resource development.

This study focuses in turn on Peruvian and BrazilianAmazonia, North-East Brazil and tropical Latin Americaas a whole, with chapters addressing human-inducedchanges in the neotropics, interactions andcomplementarity between tropical and non-tropicalregions, and land-tenure strategies for the tropics.

ISBN 92-808-0877-X • paper • 324pp •

US$35.00

Steering Business TowardSustainability

Fritjof Capra and Gunter Pauli, editors

Sustainability, in its ecological and social components,poses businesses an inescapable challenge: withoutsustainability there will be an end to profits. Hence,business people have a strong self-interest in minimizingthe ecological damage of their operations.

In this book, business executives, economists,ecologists, and other thinkers outline new practicalapproaches that businesses and society must take to meetthis challenge.“A radical and thought-provoking book.” The Times

Higher Education Supplement

ISBN 92-808-0909-1 • paper • 192pp •

US$22

ISBN 92-808-0848-6 • paper • 588pp •

US$38.00

Regions at Risk

Comparisons of Threatened Environments

UNU Studies on Critical Environmental Regions

Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, andB.L. Turner II, editors

Human-induced environmental changes are foundthroughout the world, but there are areas that scientistsconsider to be “critical regions” that are particularlyvulnerable to, or suffering from, environmentaldegradation. This volume examines as case studies ninesuch critical environmental regions: Amazonia, the AralSea basin, the middle mountains of Nepal, Kenya’sUkambani region, the U.S. Southern High Plains, theMexico Basin, the North Sea, China’s Ordos Plateau,and the eastern Sundaland region ofSouth-East Asia.

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ISBN 92-808-0906-7 • paper • 252pp •

US$30.00

Amazonia

Resiliency and Dynamism of the Land and ItsPeople

UNU Studies on Critical Environmental Regions

Nigel J.H. Smith, Emanuel Adilson S. Serrão,Paulo T. Alvim, and Italo C. Falesi

The Amazon basin, the world’s largest remainingtropical rain forest, is experiencing rapid ecological andsocio-economic changes. This book examines the forcesbehind these changes and considers current threats to theforests and their biodiversity. Various strategies forconserving forests and other regional resources areoutlined, with an emphasis on the critical role of theprivate sector.

ISBN 92-808-0893-1 • paper • 310pp •

US$30.00

In Place of the Forest

Environmental and Socio-economicTransformation in Borneo and the EasternMalay Peninsula

UNU Studies on Critical Environmental Regions

Harold Brookfield, Lesley Potter, and YvonneByron

This book describes the modern transformation ofBorneo and the eastern side of the Malay Peninsula, anarea considered to be “environmentally critical” becauseof the massive deforestation that has taken place theresince the 1960s.

The conclusions indicate that great dangers arisefrom national policies that continue to treat this region asa “resource frontier” despite itsgrowing resource scarcity.“Highly recommended.” Journal of

Contemporary Asia

ISBN 92-808-1035-9 • paper • 208pp •

US$24.95

The Ordos Plateau of China

An Endangered Environment

UNU Studies on Critical Environmental Regions

Hong Jiang

The Ordos Plateau of China is an account of regionalhuman-environmental history of the Ordos Plateau, adryland region inhabited by Chinese farmers andMongolian shepherds. It surveys environmental change(i.e. changes in vegetation and soil) during 1949–92,examines such societal factors as government policy,resource use institutions, economics (economy),population, and cultural attitudes and beliefs, andinvestigates how these factors have contributed toenvironmental change in the Ordos Plateau.

ISBN 92-808-1021-9 • paper • 216pp •

US$24.95

The Basin of Mexico

Critical Environmental Issues andSustainability

UNU Studies on Critical Environmental Regions

Exequiel Ezcurra, Marisa Mazari-Hiriart, IrenePisanty, and Adrián Guillermo Aguilar

The Basin of Mexico exemplifies an endangeredenvironment well on its way to criticality. At the helm ofthis dangerous course is Mexico City, that massivemegalopolis in which dramatic concentrations of allkinds have coalesced to render an already precariousenvironment supremely capable of “biting back” andposing an immediate and long-term threat to human use,health, and well-being. The extraordinary pace ofenvironmental changes is alreadydepleting natural resources in theregion and beyond and may beoverwhelming local environmentalsinks as well as institutional andsocietal capacities to cope.

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ISBN 92-808-1042-1 • paper • 180pp •

US$19.95

The Llano Estacado of the USSouthern High Plains

Environmental Transformation and theProspect for Sustainability

UNU Studies on Critical Environmental Regions

Elizabeth Brooks and Jacque Emel with BradJokisch and Paul Robbins

This volume presents an environmental, social, andeconomic history of the Llano Estacado region of the USSouthern High Plains. The authors illustrate thetremendous changes in environment that occurred withthe European settlement of the Plains. They detail thedevelopment of a modern irrigation culture, dependentupon non-renewable or exhaustible water resources.

ISBN 92-808-1049-9 • paper • 196pp •

US$19.95

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