[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]

PANUPS: Resource Pointer #93



            =====================================
                         P A N U P S
                             ***
                   Pesticide Action Network 
                        North America
                       Updates Service
                 http://www.panna.org/panna/
            =====================================

Resource Pointer #93

August 20, 1996

For copies of the following resources, please contact 
the appropriate publishers or organizations directly.
                         ***

*A Guide to Local Environmental Auditing, 1995.* Hugh 
Barton and Noel Bruder. Provides environmental auditing 
framework for monitoring local environments and 
identifying the impacts of local actions on global 
issues. Includes rural and urban case studies of 
environmental audits of land use planning, pollution 
control, nature conservation, energy, transportation and 
waste and recycling. 370 pp. UK$18.95. Kogan Page, 
Freepost 1, 120 Pentonville Road, London N1 9BR; phone 
(44 171) 278-0433; fax (44 171) 837-6348.

*Introduction to Environmental Health, 2nd Edition, 
1995.* D.S. Blumenthal and A.J. Ruttenber. Provides 
technical overview of environmental health, emphasizing 
principles governing behavior of toxic agents in the 
environment and their effects on people. Includes 
sections about pesticides and other toxic substances, 
air and water pollution, environmental agents of 
disease, routes of exposure and environmental health 
treatments. 372 pp. US$43.95. Springer Publishing 
Company, 536 Broadway, New York, NY 10012; phone (212) 
431-4370; fax (212) 941-7842.

*Creating the Countryside: The Politics of Rural and 
Environmental Discourse, 1996.* E. Melanie DuPuis and 
Peter Vandergeest (eds.) Discusses cultural and 
political attitudes toward rural communities and 
environments and describes their influence on rural 
development policy, environmental protection and 
agriculture. Presents several authors' views on related 
topics, including how socially constructed concepts of 
modernization have influenced New England's agriculture, 
how an agrarian development project in Spain 
marginalized small farmers through top-down framework 
and how race, class and national identity affect 
attitudes toward environmentalism in Caribbean islands. 
346 pp. US$22.95. Temple University Press, Broad and 
Oxford Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19122; phone (215) 204-
1099; fax (215) 204-4719.

*International Trade and the Montreal Protocol, 1996.* 
Duncan Brack. Examines Montreal Protocol in terms of 
world trade system, stressing that trade restrictions 
and related provisions of the agreement are critical to 
its success. Discusses compatibility of these trade 
provisions with GATT and with developing countries, and 
describes new problems of non-compliance and illegal 
trade in ozone depleting substances. 118 pp. UK$12.95 
plus UK$2.50 shipping. Plymbridge Distributors Ltd, 
Plymbridge House, Estover Road, Plymouth, Devon PL6 7PZ, 
England; phone (441 75) 220-2301; fax (441 75) 220-2333.

*From Global Capitalism to Economic Justice, 1996 
(updated from 1992).* Arjun Makhijani. Presents critique 
of global economic system, emphasizing that government 
collaboration with multinational corporations 
perpetuates poverty and contributes to despoiling the 
environment. Suggests ways to achieve economic justice, 
including giving local communities power to establish 
democratic control over coporations and other economic 
institutions, redistributing land in developing 
countries and guaranteeing employment at decent wages. 
176 pp. The Apex Press, 777 United Nations Plaza, New 
York, NY 10017; (212) 972-9877 or toll free (800) 316-
2739.

We encourage those interested in having resources listed 
in the Online Resource Pointer to send review copies of 
publications, videos or other sources to our office 
(address listed below) or to contact Information Program 
Associates Adam Kirshner or Gina Schilling for further 
information.  

  ===========================================================
|      Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)       |
|                                                           |
| Phone:(415) 541-9140           Fax:(415) 541-9253         |
| Email: panna@panna.org         http://www.panna.org/panna/|
| PANNA, 116 New Montgomery, #810, San Francisco, CA 94105  |
|                                                           |
|*To subscribe to PANUPS send email to MAJORDOMO@igc.apc.org|
| with the following text on one line: subscribe panups     |
| To unsubscribe send the following: unsubscribe panups     |
|                                                           |
|*For basic information about PANNA, send an email message  |
| to panna-info@igc.apc.org                                 |
 ===========================================================