Power and Development Alternatives Journal 23.2

Power and Development 23.2

Editorial: Brundtland and Beyond – Ray Tomalty

The Power Elite – Stephen Bocking
The Bakun Dam will flood 69,000 hectares of tropical forest, and displace thousands of people, to generate at great cost, electricity for which there is no immediate market..

Editorial: Brundtland and Beyond – Ray Tomalty

The Power Elite – Stephen Bocking
The Bakun Dam will flood 69,000 hectares of tropical forest, and displace thousands of people, to generate at great cost, electricity for which there is no immediate market..

A Foot in the Door -Juli A. Abouchar
Transnational corporations have always had access to international levers of power. Environmental groups are just now gaining some legal recognition and access.

City Limits – David McDonald
New public-private partnerships for improving cities may not meet UN Habitat Conference expectations.
Inset: Exorcising Apartheid from South Africa’s Cities by David McDonald
Inset: Pride and Power in a Lima Shanty Town by Steven Hunt

The Pits – Tullia Marcolongo
BC’s Huckleberry mine raises more concerns about flaws in the environmental assessment process, and conflicts of interest in government.

Gathering Steam -Steven Peck and Chris Callaghan
Eco-industrial parks exchange waste for efficiency and profit.

Political Warming – Ian H. Rowlands
The Geneva Climate Change Conference offers limited hope for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Inset: Scariest Thing About Climate Change: Climate Flips by Patricia Beaulieu

Temagami Diary – Laurie Gourlay
Ontario’s government plans to open up for mining and logging 58 percent of one of the last stands of old growth pine.

Daishowa Tries Gag Critics – Christopher Genovali
Daishowa’s latest SLAPP initiative was tailored to silence public criticism of their highly controversial lawsuit.

Reviews
Jonathan Collett and Stephen Karakashian, eds., Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts 
Julian Keniry, Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the Century 
Stephanie Mills, In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land 
Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth 
Mary Lean, Bread, Bricks, Belief: Communities in Charge of Their Future

Harms’ Way: The Intelligence of Chickens – Dave Harms