Table of Contents

 

House Organ 1

Essay
Trade Unions as Environmental Actors: The UK
Transport and General Workers’ Union
By Michael Mason and Nigel Morter 3

Street Ecology
Utah’s Toxic Heaven
By Mike Davis 35

American Landscapes
Savage Fields: Ideology and the War on the North
American Coyote
By John Sandlos 41

Eppur´ Si Muove
Does Anything New Ever Happen?
By Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins 53

Thinkers
Ecology and Anthropology in the Work of Murray
Bookchin: Problems of Theory and Evidence
By Alan P. Rudy 57

Ripples In Clio’s Pond
A Sense of Place
By J. Donald Hughes 91

Virtual Interview
Asia in Crisis: An Interview with Robert Guttmann 97

Symposium
Jeffery Sachs on Nature and Economic Development:
Four Critiques by James O’Connor, Antonio Contreras,
José Carlos Escudero, and María Pilar García 113

Green Dreams
Green Dreams of Space
By Paul Buhle 125

Teaching Political Ecology
Nature and Narrative: Environmental Discourses,
Property, and Power
By Charles Zerner 129

Review Essay

Water Law and the American West(s)

Donald J. Pisani: To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law,

and Public Policy, 1848-1902; John Hart: Storm Over Mono:

The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future; Arthur

L. Littleworth and Eric L. Garner: California Water

By Tim Stroshane 143

Book Reviews

Ted Benton, ed., The Greening of Marxism

By Roger Gottlieb 153

Robert D. Bullard and Glenn S. Johnson, eds.: Just

Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to

Mobility

By George T. Martin, Jr. 155

Richard Grove: Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion,

Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism,

1600–1860

By S. Ravi Rajan 157

Book Notes 160

Letters 163

 

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