The State of the Environment in Asia: 1999/2000

ISBN-13: 9784431702689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 197 str.

The Japan Environmental Council; Takehisa Awaji; Shunichi Teranishi

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These proceedings report on environmental problems in the Asian region, where effects of rapid economic growth have appeared. Topics in the fields of economics, law, biology and medicine are discussed, with data analysis in cooperation between academic researchers and NGOs throughout Asia.

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I Asia by Theme.- 1 Accelerated Industrialization and Explosive Urbanization.- 1. East Asia at a Critical Juncture.- 2. Review of Economic Growth in East Asia.- 3. Accelerated Industrialization.- 4. Explosive Urban Growth.- 5. Asia Joins the Mass Consumption Society.- 6. Mounting Costs of Pollution and Environmental Problems.- 7. Summation: Qualitative Shift in Economic Growth.- Essay Expanding Use of Nuclear Power and Increasing Risks in Asia.- 2 The Accelerating Car Culture.- 1. Motor Vehicle Pollution in Bangkok.- 2. Motor Vehicles and Urban Air Pollution.- 3. Challenges of Motorization: The Perspective from Japan’s Postwar Experience.- 4. Motor Vehicle Pollution in Asian Countries.- 5. Conclusion: Petroleum Consumption and Global Warming.- Essay The Hazards of Airborne Particulates.- 3 Pollution and Health Damage.- 1. Introduction: Compound and Diverse Pollution.- 2. Pollution Diseases in Developing Asian Countries.- 3. Multiple Pollutant Health Damage: Onsan, South Korea.- 4. Widespread Groundwater Contamination.- 5. Internationalization of Problems: Involvement of Developed Countries.- 6. Invisible Pollution Diseases.- 7. Summation: How Useful Are Japan’s Experiences and Lessons?.- Essay The Original Pollution Disease: Lessons of Minamata Disease.- 4 Conservation and Use of Biodiversity.- 1. Introduction: Biodiversity as an Environmental Issue.- 2. Conservation of Biodiversity in Asia.- 3. Eco-Farming in China.- 4. Wet Rice Aquaculture in Malaysian Rice Paddies.- 5. Summation.- Essay 1 Per Capita Natural Resources in China.- Essay 2 Asia’s Wetlands and Rice Paddies.- II Asia by Country and Region.- 1 Japan.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Brief History of Environmental Problems in Postwar Japan.- 3. Development of Environmental Law and Policy.- 4. Japan’s Environmental Policy: Characteristics and Lessons.- 5. What the Future Holds.- 6. Summation.- Essay 1 A Perspective on International Comparative Analyses of Environmental Problems.- Essay 2 Pollution-Related Health Damage Compensation Law: How the System Works.- 2 Republic of Korea.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Pollution and Environmental Problems in South Korea.- 3. Characteristics and Problems of Environmental Policy.- 4. The Promise of a New Political Milieu.- 5. Summation.- Essay 1 South Korea’s Fee-Based Trash Collection Policy.- Essay 2 “Late-Starter Advantage” in Environmental Problems and Policy.- 3 Kingdom of Thailand.- 1. Introduction: Thailand’s Economic Development and Environmental Problems.- 2. Environmental Costs of Rapid Urbanization and Industrialization.- 3. The Environment in Rural Areas.- 4. Rivers.- 5. Summation.- Essay 1 Thai System for Environmental Protection and Pollution Abatement.- Essay 2 Industrial Parks and Worker Health Damage.- 4 Malaysia.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Environmental Damage from Colonial Times.- 3. Modern Industrialization and Environmental Damage.- 4. Resort and Golf Course Development.- 5. Responses to Environmental Problems.- 6. Summation.- 5 Republic of Indonesia.- 1. Introduction: Indonesia’s Natural Environment and Economy.- 2. Pollution and Remedial Measures.- 3. Forest Loss and Conservation.- 4. The Importance of NGOs in Environmental Policy.- 5. Summation.- Essay 1 Change in the Swidden System.- Essay 2 The Process of Deforestation.- 6 People’s Republic of China.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Overview of China’s Environmental Problems.- 3. The Global Environment and China.- 4. Summation.- Essay 1 Environmental Studies Flourish while the Environment Languishes.- Essay 2 Cutting Waste and Pollution.- Essay 3 Another Look at the Food Crisis Controversy.- 7 Taiwan.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Environmental Problems in Taiwan.- 3. Self-Help and Pollution Disputes.- 4. Summation.- III Indicators.- [1] Basic Economic Indicators: External Debt and International Trade.- [2] Basic Economic Indicators: Official Development Assistance.- [3] Worker Accidents and Occupational Illnesses.- [4] Health and Education.- [5] Trends in Agriculture and Food Production.- [6] Pesticides, Chemical Fertilizers, and Eco-Agriculture.- [7] Deforestation and Forest Conservation.- [8] Regionally Disproportionate Wood Production and Consumption.- [9] Rapidly Increasing Marine Catches.- [10] Trends in Marine Product Consumption and Trade.- [11] The Wildlife Trade in Asia.- [12] Biodiversity in Asia.- [13] Advancing Urbanization.- [14] Asia’s Growing Energy Use.- [15] Air Quality in Major Asian Cities.- [16] Tightening Water Supplies.- [17] Water Pollution Crisis.- [18] Wastes and Their Disposal.- [19] Transfrontier Movements of Hazardous Wastes.- [20] Greenhouse Gas Emissions.- [21] Global Warming Impacts and the International Response.- [22] Environmental Laws and Legislation.- [23] Membership in Environmental Conventions.- Translator’s Afterword.