Environmental Change in South-East Asia: People, Politics and Sustainable Development (Global Environmental Change)

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Book

Authors

ISBN 10

0415129338

ISBN 13

9780415129336

Tags

Environmental Economics, Environmental Science, Regional, Natural Resources, Conservation, Human Geography, Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies, Geography

Description

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. - from Amzon

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