LIST OF CONTENTS Volume 7, Number 1 Viewpoint The 1996 World Food Summit Louise O Fresco Papers Public identification with sustainable development. Investigating cultural barriers to participation Phil Macnaghten and Michael Jacobs Think globally, act locally? Local climate change and energy policies in Sweden and the UK Ute Collier and Ragnar E Léfstedt Can large-scale environmental migrations be predicted? Bo R Déos Democracy, political instability and tropical deforestation Dal O Didia Institutions The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: consensual knowledge and global politics Simon Shackley Book reviews Volume 7, Number 2 Viewpoint Sustainable futures and Europe: a research viewpoint from Brussels Angela Liberatore and Andrew Sors Papers Fragmenting uncertainties. Some British business responses to stratospheric ozone depletion Martin Purvis, Frances Drake, David Clarke, Deborah Phillips and Amatsia Kashti A look behind trend data in industrialization. The role of transnational corporations and environmental impacts Melanie Mason 129 Human adaptation to climatic variability and change John Smithers and Barry Smit 147 Earth summit north and south. Building a safe house in the winds of change Jacqueline Roddick UNU Monitor 167 Environmental governance and the impending water crisis Juha I Uitto Institutions 175 Sovereignty Matthew Paterson Book reviews 179 Volume 7, Number 3 Viewpoint Procedural leadership in climate po'ticy: a European task Carlo C Jaeger, Terry Barker, Ottmar Edenhofer, Sylvie Faucheux, Jean-Charles Hourcade, Bernd Kasemir, Martin O’Connor, Martin Parry, Irene Peters, Jerry Ravetz and Jan Rotmans Megahydropolis: coastal cities in the context of global environmental change Peter Timmerman and Rodney White Acid lessons? LRTAP implementation and effectiveness Jorgen Wettestad Setting priorities for adapting to climate change Joel B Smith Joint implementation and the ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Elizabeth J Bush and L D Danny Harvey UNU Monitor Environmental monitoring and governance in East Asia G Paoletto Institutions The Group of 77 and global environmental politics Marc Williams Volume 7, Number 4 Viewpoint The hopeful state of human dimensions research Steven Sanderson Papers Uncertainty, short-term hedging and the tolerable window approach Gary W. Yohe International greenhouse gas inventory systems: A comparison between CORINAIR and IPCC methodologies in the EU Julian E. Salt and Andrea Moran Why regional studies are needed in the dev:’spment of full-scale integrated assessment modelling of global change processes William E. Easterling Does the Aral Sea merit heritage status? Michael H. Glantz and Robert M. Figueroa UNU Monitor 3 A framework for reaching agreement on climate change: Morals, self-interest and strategy F. Ted Tschang, N. S. Murthy and K. S. Kavi Kumar Institutions The United Nation’s Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development (DPCSD) Lowell Flanders