Sustainable Environmental Management : Lessons from Indonesia / by Jatna Supriatna, Ralph Lenz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Supriatna, Jatna.

Contributor:

Lenz, Ralph.

Series:

Biomedical and Life Sciences Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Study and teaching.

Human ecology.

Urban ecology (Biology).

Environmental education.

Sustainability.

Ecology.

Environmental Studies.

Urban Ecology.

Environmental and Sustainability Education.

Terrestial Ecology.

Local Subjects:

Environmental Studies.

Urban Ecology.

Environmental and Sustainability Education.

Sustainability.

Terrestial Ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (661 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

Environmental sustainability in the developing world is the focus of this book. Our purpose will not, however, be to produce an endless list of huge numbers of facts about the many developing countries. Indonesia could be considered a proto-typical example of a developing world country. As an archipelago situated along the equator in Southeast Asia, its location is ideal for a prototype—almost all developing countries are tropical. Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Papua in particular, contain a substantial portion of the world’s remaining equatorial rainforests; rainforest management is among the most pressing global sustainability problems. However, Indonesia’s forests are far from monolithic; they include a large set of different biome types. Indonesia’s population is multi-ethnic, a characteristic not only of other very large developing countries like India and Nigeria, but of nearly every African country and of many other formerly colonized regions. Another factor favoring a prototype designation is a relatively recent escape from the category of severe under-development. Indonesia ranked eighth in the world in real per capita GDP growth rate between 1960 and 2018, not an atypical outcome for Southeast Asian market economies—Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Myanmar ranked even higher (EarthTrends of World Resources Institute). Like most developing countries, economic growth has mainly been sparked by exports of energy and mineral extraction products and plantation crops. There is also manufacturing growth; Indonesia has seven ‘million’ cities and the world’s sixth-largest metro area by population. At the same time, many of the population remain engaged in agriculture; many are extremely impoverished. Environmental problems Indonesia encounters in its path to economic development are typical of those in other developing countries, and solutions it may find can serve as guidelines for other developing countries anticipating a similar economic take-off. This book consists of 21 chapters on sustainability efforts in Indonesia by many stakeholders, government, local government, private sectors, NGOs and communities.

Contents:

Environment and Sustainability Science

Sustainable Development

Global-Local Environment Implementation Innovations

Business Sustainability and Green Innovation in the SDGs Era

Forest Landscape Sustainability

Coastal and Marine Sustainability

Sustainability of Raw Water, Rivers, Swamps, and Lakes

The Indigenous and Village Peoples’ Lives Sustainability

City and Urban Life Sustainability

Sustainable Waste Management

Energy Sustainability and Renewable Energy

Tourism Sustainability

Agriculture Development Sustainability

Industrial Plants and Industrial Plantation Forests

Infrastructure and Transportation Development Sustainability

Climate Change Impacts on Environmental and Development

Sustainable Environmental Health

Sustainable Mining: Lightening the Load

Environmental Program Funding

Legislation and Environmental Law Enforcement

Sustainable Environmental Management Monitoring and Research.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-031-76642-3

OCLC:

1526860815