Managing Natural Wealth: Environment and Development in Malaysia

ISBN-13: 9781891853814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 468 str.

Jeffrey R. Vincent; Rozali Mohamed Ali

Opis

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.