Recent and current environmental legislation in Nepal is described, and its relation to sustainable development analysed.

While gender-blindness has characterised much writing on colonial environmental history, women have assumed center-stage in the historical narratives produced by two linked contemporary policy discourses: ecofeminism, and ‘women, environment and development.’

This article describes the process involved in creating a watershed model for the upper Konto watershed area in Java.

The paper provides a case study of the range of preoccupations which the statutory planner, agricultural interests and mineral developer brought to bear on the conflict arising from the early twentieth-century development of the Yorkshire ‘concealed’ coalfield.