A collaboration among the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders for Tomorrow Environment Task Force, The Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) "is a measure of overall progress towards environmental sustainability, developed for 122 countries." The...

The American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America have announced online availability of this journal, in conjunction with Stanford University's HighWire Press. Online full-text content for the Journal of Environmental Quality begins with the January-February 2001 issue and will expand with each month's new issues. Note that the free trial period...