Confronting environmental change in East and Southeast Asia : eco-politics, foreign policy and sustainable development /
edited by Paul G. Harris
- Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 2005
- xviii, 269 p. ; 24 cm.
>This is the sixth book from the Project on Environmental Change and Foreign Policy, began in 1998 at London Metropolitan University. The project is now based at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction : confronting environmental change - lessons from East and Southeast Asia / Paul G. Harris
2. Environmental politics and foreign policy in East Asia : a survey of China and Japan / Paul G. Harris
3. The environment and Japanese foreign policy : anthropocentric ideologies and changing power relationships / Mika Mervio
4. Japan and global climate change : the intersection of domestic politics and diplomacy / Hiroshi Ohta
5. Environmental degradation and security in Maoist China : lessons from the war preparation movement / Judith Shapiro
6. The 'troubled modernizer' : three decades of Chinese environmental policy and diplomacy / Yuka Kobayashi
7. 'Panda diplomacy' : state environmentalism, international relations and Chinese foreign policy / Jonathan Harrington
8. Taiwan's international environmental policy : balancing trade and the environment / Wen-chen Shih
9. China and the climate change agreements : science, development and diplomacy / Ho-Ching Lee
10. Thailand and the Convention on Biological Diversity : non-governmental organizations enter the debate / Jak Sangchai
11. Mekong River politics and environmental security / Peter Stoett
12. Protecting the marine environment : international assistance and the Vietnam Sea / Tran Duc Thanh, Tran Dinh Lan and Pham Van Luong
13. Sustainable development in Canada and Taiwan : comparative and international perspectives / Tse-Kang Leng
14. Community-based conflict management and environmental change : a case study from Papua New Guinea / Philip Scott Jones.
"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 addresses these complex issues and brings foreign policy considerations into analyses of how states and other actors in East and Southeast Asia confront environmental change through international cooperation and 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."--BOOK JACKET.
9280811134
CASE STUDIES
SOUTHEAST ASIA
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
JAPAN
CHINA
EAST ASIA
FOREIGN POLICY
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
>This is the sixth book from the Project on Environmental Change and Foreign Policy, began in 1998 at London Metropolitan University. The project is now based at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction : confronting environmental change - lessons from East and Southeast Asia / Paul G. Harris
2. Environmental politics and foreign policy in East Asia : a survey of China and Japan / Paul G. Harris
3. The environment and Japanese foreign policy : anthropocentric ideologies and changing power relationships / Mika Mervio
4. Japan and global climate change : the intersection of domestic politics and diplomacy / Hiroshi Ohta
5. Environmental degradation and security in Maoist China : lessons from the war preparation movement / Judith Shapiro
6. The 'troubled modernizer' : three decades of Chinese environmental policy and diplomacy / Yuka Kobayashi
7. 'Panda diplomacy' : state environmentalism, international relations and Chinese foreign policy / Jonathan Harrington
8. Taiwan's international environmental policy : balancing trade and the environment / Wen-chen Shih
9. China and the climate change agreements : science, development and diplomacy / Ho-Ching Lee
10. Thailand and the Convention on Biological Diversity : non-governmental organizations enter the debate / Jak Sangchai
11. Mekong River politics and environmental security / Peter Stoett
12. Protecting the marine environment : international assistance and the Vietnam Sea / Tran Duc Thanh, Tran Dinh Lan and Pham Van Luong
13. Sustainable development in Canada and Taiwan : comparative and international perspectives / Tse-Kang Leng
14. Community-based conflict management and environmental change : a case study from Papua New Guinea / Philip Scott Jones.
"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 addresses these complex issues and brings foreign policy considerations into analyses of how states and other actors in East and Southeast Asia confront environmental change through international cooperation and 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."--BOOK JACKET.
9280811134
CASE STUDIES
SOUTHEAST ASIA
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
JAPAN
CHINA
EAST ASIA
FOREIGN POLICY
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY