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Confronting Environmental Change in East and Southeast Asia - Eco-politics, Foreign Policy and Sustainable Development (Paperback)
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Confronting Environmental Change in East and Southeast Asia - Eco-politics, Foreign Policy and Sustainable Development (Paperback)
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Loot Price R581
Discovery Miles 5 810
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'This is clearly a book with great breadth and diversity... a
valuable addition to the literature about east and southeast Asia.'
T Forsyth, Development Studies Institute London School of Economics
and Political Science, in Land Degradation and Development As their
economies and populations expand, almost all Asian countries are
experiencing profound ecological problems at the national, regional
and global level; be it air pollution in rapidly growing cities,
trans-boundary water pollution or climate change. While the
countries of East and Southeast Asia are the victims of
environmental change, they are also complicit in causing it at home
and abroad. As these countries move towards international
environmental cooperation, a central issue becomes the vital
connection between foreign policy and environmental problems.
Foreign policy is about pursuing and promoting national interests,
however it is not always clear what a country's national interests
are or ought to be, particularly with regard to complex
international ecological issues. On top of this, it is almost
always debatable how best to promote them. Confronting
Environmental Change in East and Southeast Asia is a collection of
concise, hard-hitting essays by a group of international experts
and scholars that address these complex issues. The book takes
foreign policy considerations into account in its analyses of how
states and other actors in East and Southeast Asia confront
environmental change through international cooperation and
environmentally sustainable development. The first part of the book
examines many of the actors, institutions and forces shaping
environmental diplomacy and foreign policy in East Asia, with a
focus on China and Japan. The second part of the book takes a
deeper look at the relationships between ecological politics,
international relations and environmentally sustainable development
in East and Southeast Asia. Several chapters in the second part
focus on how environmental foreign policies impact countries in the
region as they endeavour to implement environmentally sustainable
development. Together, the analysis and case studies in this volume
illuminate how environmental change is confronted - or not - in
East and Southeast Asia, with a host of important insights for
researchers, governments, policy-makers, conservationists and
business people dealing with the profound environmental problems
facing the region.
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