This article examines energy consumption, the transition from organic to fossil energy carriers, and the consequent CO₂ emissions over a period of almost 150 years (1861–2000) in Italy and Spain.

A summary of a document produced for the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe.

For one month, we are able to follow an assistant forester on his daily rounds about the province of Capiz on Panay Island, as the forest was transformed from a resource and a refuge into an arena where state management practices and indigenous customary rights competed alongside those who saw trees as nothing more than a commercial enterprise.

Investigates the significance of the Sundarbans as a natural reserve or buffer area (a resource of yet unknown magnitude) in pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial South Asia.