Island Press Field Notes

As a Sustainability Management graduate student, I was naturally captivated by the latest edition of the Worldwatch Institute's State of the World series Is Sustainability Still Possible?. This book provides the practices and policies that will steer us in the right direction to prosperity, without diminishing the well-being of future generations. As I prepare to graduate and start my career, State of the World 2013: Is

The 1992 Rio Earth Summit was supposed to be a turning point for the World Bank. What's happened since then? How have the Bank's efforts fallen short? Called a “detailed and thought-provoking look at an important subject” by The New York Times, Mortgaging the Earth analyzes the twenty year period leading up the Rio Summit.

Lawyers, Swamps, and Money is a periodic blog by Royal C. Gardner, author of Lawyers, Swamps, and Money: U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics. As the dust settles after the end of the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest term, the case of Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District is causing some uncertainty, if not angst, among wetland regulators and environmental proponents.

Author John Dernbach provides insights on the sustainability efforts since the first Earth Summit and how we can improve in the latest issue of The Environmental Forum.