BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
G. J. S. Govett and M. H. Govett (eds.). World Mineral Supplies: Assessment and Perspectives
Grossling, B., Window on Oil - A Survey of World Petroleum Resources , Financial Times Limited, London
V. I. Visoskiy, N. A. Kalinin, Yr. Ya. Kuznetsov, M. Sh. Modilevskiy (eds.), Oil and Gas Resources in Capitalistic and Developing countries     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Why Governments Waste Natural Resources. Policy Failures in Developing Countries William Ascher The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
The Poverty of Development Economics. Second revised and expanded edition Deepak Lal The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA
Involuntary Resettlement Comparative Perspectives: World Bank Series on Evaluation and Development Volume 2 Robert Picciotto, Warren van Wicklin and Edward Rice Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick (USA) and London (UK)
Private Firms and Public Water: Realising Social and Environmental Objectives in Developing Countries Nick Johnstone and Libby Wood Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK
Tourism, Recreation and Sustainability—Linking Culture and the Environment Edited by Stephen F. McCool and R. Neil Moisey CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article:
Elements of Geographical Hydrology, Brian J. Knapp.
Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis: The Case of Chicago, Louis P. Cain.
Water in a Developing World, A. E. Utton and L. Teclaff, editors.     

United Nations Interregional Seminar on Land Information Management in the Developing World

The Interregional Seminar on Land Information Management in the Developing World was jointly hosted by the United Nations and the Government of Australia. The seminar sought to highlight the achievements, issues and developments relating to Land Information Management (LIM) with particular reference to developing countries and formulated a series of recommendation on future uses of LIM in the context of the needs of developing countries.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
C. Kirchner, E. Schanze, F.G. v. Schlabrendorff, A. Stockmayer, T.W. Wälde, M. Fritzsche, R. Patzina. English version by William J. Mahoney, Mining Ventures in Developing Countries – Volume 1: Interests, Bargaining Process, Legal Concepts.
Judith T. Kildow (ed.), Deepsea Mining
Bryan Cooper (ed.), OPEC Oil Report
Lester R. Brown, Christopher Flavin and Colin Norman, Running on Empty: The Future of the Automobile in an Oil-Short World     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Money to Burn? The High Costs of Energy Subsidies: Mark Kosmo Planning for Drought: Toward a Reduction of Societal Vulnerability: Donald A. Wilhite and William E. Easterling, with Deborah A. Wood State of the World 1988: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society: Lester R. Brown, William U. Chandler, Christopher Flavin, Jodi Jacobson, Sandra Postel, Cynthia Pollock Shea and Edward C. Wolf Non-Conventional Water Resources Use in Developing Countries; Proceedings of the Interregional Seminar, Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, 22–28 April 1985     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: A ray of hope : RETHINKING TECHNICAL COOPERATION: Reforms for Capacity Building in Africa by Elliot J. Berg A lack of optimism : GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Perspectives on Sustainability Edited by Joel Darmstadter Conserving water : WATER SUPPLY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Developing World Applications by Mohan Munasinghe Learning to hedge : COMMODITY RISK MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE Edited by Theophilos Priovolos and Ronald C. Duncan Alive and well? : THE MEXICAN PETROLEUM INDUSTRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Edited by Jonathan C. Brown and Alan Knight     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Kirchner/Schanze/v. Schlabrendorff/Stockmayer/Wälde/Fritzsche/Patzina, Rohstofferschliessungsvorhaben in Entwicklungslndern - Teil 1: Interessenrahmen, Verhandlungsprozess, rechtliche Konzeption (Mining Ventures in Developing Countries - Part 1: Interests, Bargaining Process, Legal Concepts), Metzner, Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany, 1977, 413 pp.
Nyembo Shabani, L'Industrie du Cuivre dans le Monde et le Progres Economique du Copperbelt Africain .
Zuhayr Mikdashi, The International Politics of Natural Resources , Cornell University Press
Dennis Hayes, Rays of Hope - The Transition to a Post-Petroleum World , A Worldwatch Institute Book, W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
Association of Geosciences for International Development, New Directions in Mineral Development Policies
G. P. Gasby (editor), Marine Manganese Deposits , Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company
Kathryn Morton and Peter Tulloch, Trade and Developing Countries , John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
L. V. Cunha, V. A. Figueiredo, M. L. Correia, A. S. Gonçalves, Management and Law for Water Resources , Fort Collins (Colorado), Water Resources Publications
W. M. Telford, L. P. Geldhart, R. E. Sheriff, and D. A. Keys, Applied Geophysics , Cambridge University Press, 1976.     

Book Reviews

Book revieved in this article:
Institutional Arrangements for Water Management: Canadian Experiences, Bruce Mitchell, Editor.
Polluted Groundwater, A Review of the Significant Literature, by David Keith Todd and Daniel E. Orren McNulty
A System Approach to Water Distribution Modeling and Control, by Robert De Moyer, Jr. and Lawrence B. Horwitz.
Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air, by Theodor Schwenk. Preface by Commandant Jacques Y. Cousteau.
Industrial Wastewater Management Handbook, edited by Hardam S. Azad.
Isotope Techniques in Groundwater Hydrology, Proceedings of a Symposium
Village Water Supply: Economics and Poky in the Developing World, by Robert J. Saunders and Jeremy J. Warford.
Sources of Information in Water Resources, an annotated guide to printed materials by Gerald J . Giefer.     

Planning for environmental project implementation and development: as exemplified by the songklha lake basin planning study,Thailand

Summary This paper describes use of the economic-cumenvironmental regional development planning process (as differentiated from regional economic planning and regional environmental planning) for its first application in the Asia-Pacific region, for The Songkhla Lake Basin Planning Study, in southern Thailand. The study project was carried out, with Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan financing, as a joint venture of the national economic and national environmental planning agencies. Because of its pioneering nature, in both technical and institutional aspects, numerous lessons were learned from the project. These are described, and yield guidelines valuable for future studies of this type.Dr Harvey F. Ludwig, Chairman of Seatec International Consulting Engineers in Bangkok, has a unique record of distinguished experience in environmental engineering. This includes, in addition to his present role, experience as a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, in research (four USA national awards), in government (as Assistant Chief Engineer of the US Public Health Service Engineering Group, the predecessor to USEPA), and with numerous international assistance agencies including the World Bank, ADB, and many UN affiliates. Dr Ludwig moved to live in Bangkok in 1973 and has since been a continuing adviser to the National Environment Board of Thailand and to the Institutes of Water Resources Research of Indonesia. He is the author/coauthor of some 160 professional publications and the senior author of a textbook onEnvironmental Technology in Developing Countries, now being printed by CRC Press of Boca Raton, Florida. His work record includes projects in more than 30 Developing countries.     

浅论新疆开发区的管理状况及其保护对策

文章主要对新疆各类开发区目前的环境管理状况及存在的问题作了分析,提出推动开发区区域环境规划或加强环境影响评价的对策.明确开发区环境保护的总体要求,合理规划开发区内外的总体布局,加强开发区的环境监督管理,建立跟踪监测制度,采取有效手段推进环保设施建设.控制开发区污染物总量的排放和加强开发区的生态环境建设,落实事故风险防范和应急措施,从而更有效地为开发区的企业提供服务.     

Integrating fisheries into the national development plans of Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Ten years on from Barbados

The development and effective introduction of strategies designed to ensure the ecologically and economically sustainable utilization of coastal and marine resources is perhaps the major challenge for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). In response, the 1994 Barbados Programme of Action (BPoA) called upon the SIDS to implement appropriate coastal and marine strategies and, crucially, ensure that such strategies were integrated into sustainable national development plans (NDPs). This article examines the extent to which contemporary NDPs and donor support programmes have incorporated the fisheries sector — arguably the most important coastal/marine resource for many SIDS — into such documents. Applying an assessment methodology, originally developed to identify levels of environmental mainstreaming within World Bank country assistance strategies to NDPs and donor support programmes, we are able to identify those SIDS who have most effectively integrated the fisheries sector into such documents. Comparison with data indicating the importance of the sector to the national economy (in terms of generating foreign exchange, employment generation and/or supporting domestic protein consumption levels) enables us to pinpoint those countries with substantial fisheries sectors, but a correspondingly lower than expected degree of sectoral mainstreaming. We suggest that the January 2005 review of the BPoA offers an opportune moment for such countries to redress these omissions.     

Petroleum Company Operations and Agreements in the Developing Countries

Book revewed in this article:
Petroleum Company Operations & Agreements in Developing Countries Author : Raymond F. Mikesell     

Using a Balanced Scorecard to Implement Sustainability

Developing social and environmental balanced scorecard measures helps EH&S managers identify the key performance factors that link their department's work to the company's strategic objectives. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Groundwater in the Pacific Region
Mineral Resources Development: Michael Woakes and John S. Carman.
The Energy Transition in Developing Countries
A Collection of International Concessions and Related Instruments: Peter Fischer and Thomas Wälde.     

大力发展循环经济积极探索科学发展的新路子

循环经济是中国实现可持续发展战略的一种新的经济形态。发展循环经济是落实科学发展观、构建和谐社会的重要内容之一,具有缓解资源约束矛盾的作用,能从根本上减轻环境污染。因此,要从企业、产业、区域层面积极推进循环经济的发展,确保循环经济发展取得实效。     

The seventh world conservation lecture the World Bank's challenge: Balancing economic need with environmental protection

The World Conservation Lecture is an annual event organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) — United Kingdom, to draw attention to the World Conservation Strategy. This lecture was presented at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London on 3 March 1988. Full copies of the lecture, in booklet form, are available from the Education Department, WWF — UK, Panda House, Weyside Park, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 1XR.     

发展循环经济促进可持续发展

循环经济是应用生态学指导的反馈式物质流程,其原则是减量化、再利用、再循环。发展循环经济在企业中主要是清洁生产;在产业区中主要是建设工业生态园区;在城市中是建立循环经济系统。循环经济是经济、社会、环境的“三赢”经济。发展循环经济需要法规、政策、科技支持。我国公布了发展循环经济的有关政策及重点行业、重点省市、重点工业园区,以加快发展循环经济,促进可持续发展。     

A biotechnological agenda for the third world

Third World countries should exploit the genetic information stored in their flora and fauna to develop independent and highly competitive biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries. The necessary condition for this policy to succeed is the reshaping of their universities and hospitals—to turn them into high-caliber research institutions dedicated to the creation of original knowledge and biomedical invention. Part of the service of the Third World foreign debt should be co-invested with the lending banks in high technology enterprises. This should be complemented with an active program of investments in First World biotech companies and university research departments which could contribute to the solving of problems connected with the First World. These strategic alliances would allow effective training of molecular biologists, improvement of South American universities, and education of biotechnologists, managers, and lawyers in the complexities of high-technology business. The establishment of real joint ventures between developed and underdeveloped countries might contribute to change the present strained relations between the North and the South, and science and technology could become real forces of social and economic development.     

The cost of water

Summary For all too many developing countries, it is a case of “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink”. In many of the Least Developed Countries, safe drinking water and excreta disposal facilities are sadly inadequate. Published by kind permission ofWorld Health, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland. Miss Uma Ram Nath is a freelance journalist from New Delhi, India, writing on Third World development themes.