Coming Up:

March 2012: 20th Anniversary Issue

From Rio 1992 to Rio 2012 and Beyond

Raymond Clémençon 
Editorial: From Rio 1992 to Rio 2012 and Beyond: Revisiting the Role of Trade Rules and Financial Transfer for Sustainable Development 

Thoughts from JED's Editorial Board Members: Taking stock and moving forward
The following 14 essays are contributions written by invitation by the Journal of Environment and Development’s Editorial Board members to commemorate the 20^th anniversary issue of Journal of Environment and Development and to contribute to the discussions leading up to the Rio Plus 20 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development to be held in June 2012 in Rio De Janeiro.

The challenge ahead:

David S. Woodruff, A Tale of Two Planets: biodiversity and environmental sustainability before and after Rio+20

Miranda A. Schreurs, Rio +20: Assessing Progress to Date and Future Challenges

Ronald B. Mitchell, Technology is Not Enough: Climate Change, Population, Affluence, and Consumption

Equity and Fairness:

Angela Alonso  and Arilson Favareto , The Brazilian Environmental movement since Rio-1992:  caught between environmental efficiency and social legitimacy

Maria Onestini, Latin America and the Winding Road to Rio+20: from Sustainable Development to Green Economy Discourse

Peter H. Sand, Fortress Conservation Trumps Human Rights? The ‘Marine Protected Area’ in the Chagos Archipelago

Peter Newell, Of markets and madness: Whose clean development will prevail at Rio+20?

Strengthening Governance:

Steve Charnovitz, Organizing for the Green Economy: What an International Green Economy Organization Could Add

Navroz K. Dubash, Toward Enabling an Inclusive Global Environmental Governance

Charlotte Streck, Struggling With Expectations and Changing Realities: International Climate Negotiations

Liliana B. Andonova, Matthew J. Hoffmann, From Rio to Rio and Beyond: Innovation in Global Environmental Governance

Challenges for research and education:

Thomas Bernauer and Carola Betzold, Civil Society in Global Environmental Governance

Detlef F. Sprinz, Long-Term Environmental Policy – Challenges for Research

Thomas Sterner, Maria Damon, Gunnar Köhlin, Martine Visser, Capacity Building to Deal With Climate Challenges Today and in the Future

Research Articles:

George Stetson, Oil Politics and Indigenous Resistance in the Peruvian Amazon: the Rhetoric of Modernity Against the Reality of Coloniality

Astrid Hendriksen, Judith Tukahirwa, Peter J. M. Oosterveer, Arthur P. J. Mol, Participatory Decision Making for Sanitation Improvements in Unplanned Urban Settlements in East Africa

Henrike Brecht, Susmita Dasgupta, Benoit Laplante, Siobhan Murray, David Wheeler, Sea-Level Rise and Storm Surges: High Stakes for a Small Number of Developing Countries

Policy Analysis:

Hultman, Nathan, Sulle, Emmanuel; Ramig, Christopher; Sykora-Bodie, Seth, Biofuels investments in Tanzania: Policy options for sustainable business models

Books received

Free reprints from the first issue of JED: