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Managing natural wealth : environment and development in Malaysia / Jeffrey R. Vincent and Rozali Mohamed Ali.
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View onlineLippincott Library HC445.5.Z9 E544 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vincent, Jeffrey R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development--Malaysia.
- Sustainable development.
- Environmental policy--Economic aspects--Malaysia.
- Environmental policy.
- Natural resources--Malaysia.
- Natural resources.
- Environmental policy--Economic aspects.
- Malaysia--Economic policy.
- Malaysia.
- Economic policy.
- Malaysia--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 468 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Resources for the Future ; Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005.
- Summary:
- The remarkably rich natural environment of Malaysia attracts the interest of both developers and environmentalists. Managing Natural Wealth analyzes major natural resource and environmental policy issues in the country during the 1970s and 1980s--a period of profound socioeconomic change, rapid depletion of natural resources, and the emergence of serious problems with pollution. Managing Natural Wealth builds on Environment and Development in a Resource-Rich Economy: Malaysia under the New Economic Policy, a path-breaking book that emphasized economics as a source for analyzing the issues involved in environmental and natural resource management in Malaysia. It includes a review of key developments since the 1990s by S. Robert Aiken and Colin H. Leigh, two geographers with a long-standing interest in environmental change in Malaysia and an understanding of the institutional context of its environmental policy that is unmatched in the scholarly community.
- Contents:
- Natural resources and the environment in the Malaysian context
- Natural resources and economic sustainability
- Petroleum
- Forests
- Agricultural land
- Marine fisheries
- Freshwater
- Pollution and economic development
- Air pollution and health
- Water pollution control
- Conclusions
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-450) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1933115203
- 1891853813
- OCLC:
- 55764456
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