ASIA'S ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howard, Michael C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental degradation--Asia.

Environmental degradation.

Environmental policy--Asia.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 293 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : ROUTLEDGE, 2019.

Summary:

This book focuses on the political economy of the environment in Asia, examining the economic and political forces that have generated the problems, the political efforts to find solutions, and the economic and political contexts of proposed solutions.

Contents:

Introduction

Colonization of Tribal Lands in Bangladesh and Indonesia: State Rationales, Rights to Land, and Environmental Justice1

Territory, Forests, and Historical Continuity: Indigenous Rights and Natural Resources

Small-Scale Mining and the Environment in Southeast Asia

Mining and the Environment in New Caledonia: The Case of Thio

Smallholder Commercial Cultivation and the Environment: Rubber in Southeast Asia

The Political Economy of Eucalyptus: Business, Bureaucracy, and the Thai Government

Biotechnologies and Sustainable Development: Potential and Constraints

Energy Strategies and Environmental Constraints in China's Modernization

Japan and the Environmental Degradation of the Philippines

Debt and Environment: The Philippine Experience

Economic Growth and Environmental Problems in South Korea: The Role of the Government1

A Social Analysis of the Environmental Problems in Thailand

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-71591-9

0-429-04187-X

0-429-69590-X

9780429041877

OCLC:

1110009701