Table of Contents: “…People participation - a challenge to protected area management - the Peru experience / Elna Beer -- The European Union, Latin America and the Free Trade Area of the Americas: strategic regionalism in the western hemisphere / José Briceño-Ruiz -- Buenos Aires - its port and metropolitan area / Moira Liljesthröm -- Transforming territories - the effects of economic restructuring and regional integration in Argentina / Elsa Laurelli, Moira Liljesthröm -- The closing statement of the fifty-third UN General Assembly President / Didier Opertti -- Brazilian foreign minister visits South Africa / Keith Campbell -- What price water? …”