Book Review: Victoria D. Markham & Nadia Steinzor. U.S. National Report on Population and the Environment. New Canaan, CT: Center for Environment and Population, 2006

Abstract

issues of intellectual property rights. Second, there has been a significant amount of good scholarship lately on newer forms of environment-related movements (e.g., environmental health movements, slow food). Related to this is fascinating work on transnational organic and fair trade movements and certification processes. A third area featuring an impressive body of recent scholarship is realist research on the causes of ecological degradation (or environmental problems). Some of this research attempts to explain cross-national variation in a number of impact-related indicators (e.g., ecological footprint, carbon dioxide emissions) to simultaneously test multiple theories of ecological impact. Other research within this area focuses at the mesolevel, attempting to explain variation in the environmental impacts of formal organizations.