Environmental Change in South-East Asia: People, Politics and Sustainable DevelopmentMike Parnwell, Raymond L. Bryant Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests. Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive economic and ecological approaches, the authors stress that neither the quest for sustainable development nor the process of environmental change itself can be understood without reference to political processes. |
Contents
INDONESIA AND THAILAND | 23 |
ENVIRONMENTAL NGOS AND DIFFERENT POLITICAL | 49 |
JAPAN AND SOUTHEAST ASIAS ENVIRONMENT | 67 |
THE SEARCH FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS | 97 |
THE NORDIC | 123 |
FOREST | 145 |
A CRITIQUE | 225 |
THE SUSTAINABILITY OF ECOTOURISM | 237 |
FUTURE MARINE PARK MANAGERS | 260 |
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION NONTIMBER FOREST | 269 |
ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BRUNEIS | 301 |
TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE | 330 |
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