Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780521897174 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 500 str.

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The Asia-Pacific region is experiencing especially rapid development and population increase, and issues of global change and sustainable development are likely to be of particular importance in the coming decades. This book presents chapters by leading international experts on the major issues relating to global change and sustainable development from the perspectives of Asia and the Pacific. It also highlights the challenges and opportunities of sustainable development and poverty reduction within the changing ecological, social, cultural and economic environment in this region. The volume is an invaluable reference for all researchers and policy makers with an interest in global change and sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.

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Notes on Contributors; Peer Reviewers; Editor's Note; Forewords; Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba; Acronyms and Abbreviations; SI Prefixes; Units Abbreviations; Chemical Formulae; Part I. Sustainable Development: Theories and Practices: 1. Asian Identities; 2. On Sustainable Development; 3. Sustainability – A Scientific Dilemma; 4. Respect and Reward: Ecology from the Analects of Confucius; 5. Sustainable Development from an East-West Integrative Perspective: Eastern Culture Meets Western Complexity Theory; 6. Sustainable Urbanism: Measuring Long-term Architectural Merit; 7. Sustaining Wooden Architectural Heritage; 8. Green Development in China; 9. Bhutan's Sustainable Development Initiatives in Pursuit of Gross National Happiness; 10. A Different Form of Sustainable Development in Thailand and Bhutan: Implementation of a Sufficiency Approach; 11. The Sustainability of Food Production in Papua New Guinea; 12. Education for Sustainable Development: An overview of Asia-Pacific Perspectives; 13. Placemaking Framework for Social Sustainability of Master-planned Communities: A Case Study from Australia; 14. Poverty, Inequity and Environmental Degradation: The Key Issues Confronting the Environment and Development in Asia; 15. The Challenge of Global Climate Change for International Law: An Overview; 16. Sustainable Development and Climate Change Negotiations: Perspectives of Developing Countries'; Part II. Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities: 17. Scientific Responses in an Era of Global Change; 18. Government Communication on Transboundary Haze: The Nexus between Public Health and Tourism; 19. Biomass Energy Prospects: A Promising Fuel for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific; 20. Pathways to a More Sustainable Electricity Sector in India; 21. Gender Equality and Energy Access: Barriers to Maximizing Development Effectiveness in the SAARC Region; 22. The Biosphere and the Interactions between Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Climate Change; 23. The Political Challenge of Linking Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies: Risks and Prospects; 24. Social Vulnerability to Climate Change in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam; 25. Sustainable Development in Bangladesh: Bridging the SDGs and Climate Action; 26. Sustainable Development in Pakistan: Vulnerabilities and Opportunities; 27. Beyond Protected Areas: Biodiversity Conservation and Global Change in Asia and the Pacific; 28. Causes of Land Use Change and Biodiversity Loss in Monsoon Asia; 29. Assessing Linkages between Land Use and Biodiversity: A Case Study from the Eastern Himalayas Using Low-cost, High-return Survey Technology; 30. Where to Invade Next: Inaction on Biological Invasions Threatens Sustainability in a Small Island Developing State of the Tropical South Pacific; 31. Did the Indian Ocean Tsunami Trigger a Shift Towards Disaster Risk Reduction?; 32. Cyclone Nargis and Disaster Risk Management in Myanmar; Index.