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PERI's program in Development, Peacebuilding, and the Environment breaks from the conventional framework of economic well-being measured in Gross National Product (GNP). In each of its components, DPE explores how democratization in the distribution of power - at the international, national, and local levels - can advance sustainable and secure livelihoods for all. Peace and the Public Purse: Economic Policies for Postwar StatebuildingIn the aftermath of violent conflict, how do the economic challenges of statebuilding intersect with the political challenges of peacebuilding? How can the international community help lay the fiscal foundations for a sustainable state and a durable peace? In this edited volume, James Boyce, (Director of PERI’s Development, Peacebuilding, & the Environment Program), and Madalene O’Donnell (United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations) lift the curtain that often has separated economic policy from peace implementation. Drawing on recent experiences in war-torn societies such as Uganda, Cambodia, Bosnia, Guatemala, Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, and Palestine, this book brings to life a key dimension of how peace and states are built. >> Order Peace & the Public Purse from Lynne Rienner Publishers Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological RestorationReclaiming Nature, edited by James Boyce (Director of PERI's Development, Peacebuilding & the Environment program) along with Sunita Narain and Elizabeth A. Stanton, offers a hopeful new vision of the relationship between people and nature. The contributors to this volume chart a course between denial and despair over world’s mounting environmental problems. They realize that human activities can have positive impacts on nature’s wealth as well as negative ones. The crucial question is how we can tip the balance in favor of the positive. In the form of essays by well-known economists, environmentalists, and activists, this book offers readers hope for a better tomorrow, inspired by examples of people across the world who are building natural assets by adding value, democratizing access, capturing benefits, and defending the commons. >>Link to the Natural Assets project homepage Responses from Top 10 Corporate Air PollutersPERI's annual Corporate Toxics Information Project analyzes and disseminates information from the US Environmental Protection Agency on corporate releases of toxic chemicals and the resulting exposures of communities to air and water pollution hazards. PERI shared the most recent CTIP findings with the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, a watchdog organization that tracks corporate responsibility on a wide range of topics. The Centre adds a twist: they contact each company cited, and invite their responses to any criticism of their conduct. Of the top ten companies on the CTIP list, seven provided these responses, and PERI posted rejoinders to these. The BHRRC site now hosts this lively and informative dialogue. >>Go to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre CTIP responses In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race after KatrinaHurricane Katrina opened a window on a world often ignored by media, policy makers, and the public. Facing enhanced environmental vulnerability and stranded by a lack of public transit, residents of the poorest and blackest neighborhoods of New Orleans quickly educated America that disasters and rescues are not equal opportunity affairs. James K. Boyce, Director of PERI'S Environment Program, joins authors Manuel Pastor, Robert Bullard, Alice Fothergill, Rachel Morello-Frosh and Beverly Wright in this groundbreaking analysis of the complex repercussions of natural disaster, examining, in the context of Katrina, the ways in which environmental disparities by race and class operate in the United States. |
