Routledge Handbook of Environment and Society in Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415659857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 476 str.

Paul G. Harris;Graeme Lang;¬Abar

Opis

The rapid development of the Asian region has led to a huge increase in environmental problems such as pollution, waste management issues, deforestation, and depletion of natural resources and extinction of native species. This handbook provides a survey of the cultural, social and policy aspects of the environment in the region. A team of international experts offer authoritative overviews of the key issues surrounding energy, climate change, air, land, water, fisheries, forests and wildlife.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction  1. East Asia and the Environment: A Thematic Introduction  Part 2: Human Contexts  2. Human Rights and the Environment: Making the Connections  3. Environmental Justice and Civil Society: Case Studies from Southeast Asia  4. Literature and the Environment: Local Approaches to Ecocriticism  Part 3: Politics and Policy  5. Environmental Policy in East Asia: Institutions in Comparative Perspective  6. Paradoxes of Democratization: Environmental Politics in East Asia  7. Nongovernmental Organizations and Environmental Protests: Impacts in East Asia  8. Corporations and the Environment in East Asia: Responsibilities and Responses of Businesses  Part 4: Air, Land and Water  9. Air Pollution: Inventories, Regional Control and Institutions  10. Seeing through the Smog: China’s Air Pollution Challenge for East Asia  11. Municipal Solid Waste: The Burgeoning Environmental Threat  12. Water Scarcity and Pollution in South and Southeast Asia: Problems and Challenges  13. Dams: Controlling Water but Creating Problems  14. Food and Agriculture: Security, Globalization and Technology  Part 5: Fisheries, Forests and Wildlife  15. Fisheries in East Asia: Political, Economic and Security Challenges  16. Coral Reefs: Artisanal Fisheries and Community-based Management  17. Protecting the Marine Environment: Controlling Pollution in the Coral Triangle  18. Governance of Forests: Regional Institutions in East Asia  19. Wildlife Consumption: Cultural and Environmental Values in China and Southeast Asia  Part 6: Energy and Climate Change  20. Drivers of Climate Change in East Asia: The Energy Dilemma  21. Vulnerabilities to Climate Change: Adaptation in the Asia-Pacific  22. Impacts of Climate Change: Challenges of Flooding in Coastal East Asia  23. East Asia’s Renewable Energy Strategies: Low-Carbon Developmentalism in the Making  24. Explaining Low Carbon Development in Asia: The Case of China  25. Nuclear Energy in Asia: End of the Renaissance?  Part 7: Conclusion  26. Environmental Change in Asian Societies: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

O autorze

Paul G. Harris isChair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. Graeme Lang is a Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong.