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Taiwan's Environmental Struggle - Toward a Green Silicon Island (Paperback)
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Taiwan's Environmental Struggle - Toward a Green Silicon Island (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
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Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in
the last 50 years that produced one of Asia's genuine 'miracles' of
modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income
and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The
process, though, involved rapid industrialization and urbanization,
and breakneck mass consumption, that inevitably resulted in rapid
escalation in degradation of the island's fragile air, water, and
land, and produced some of the worst environmental pollution to be
found anywhere in Asia This book examines the causes of Taiwan's
environmental predicament, engaging in Taiwan's unique geological,
geographical, demographical, political, industrial, historical and
economic circumstances. In addition, Jack Williams and Ch'ang-yi
David Chang assess the efforts of the government, NGOs and private
citizens to create a "green" environmentally sustainable island,
with a high tech economy based on the silicon chip, the backbone of
Taiwan's highly successful IT industry. Finally the authors discuss
what can be done to improve Taiwan's environmental future. As the
first commercially available book in English on Taiwan's
environmental problems this is an invaluable read for students and
scholars interested in environmental studies, sustainable
development and the island of Taiwan.
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