This volume paints a general picture of the environmental situation
in Asia, backing it up with several case studies.Two major points
are made in this general picture. The first is that environmental
campaigns in Asia tend to have a local focus; they react to very
concrete problems in the immediate neighbourhood and as such
usually people are engaged in a cause for practical rather than
idealistic reasons. Such can be seen in case studies from the
volume dealing with campaigns against logging and tree plantations,
tourist facilities and factories and in support or defence of
nature reserves. This pattern is in marked contrast to the profile
of the most successful Western movements (in terms of fund-raising
at least) for whom the focus is on perceived problems in distant
parts of the world.The second point is evidence in several of the
case studies in the volume, namely that environmental campaigns
cannot be understood in terms of environmental issues alone.
Rather, they should be regarded as a form of cultural critique and
frequently are a form of political resistance in situations where
open political action is too risky.
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