Routledge Handbook of the Environment in Southeast Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hirsch, Philip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of the Environment in Southeast Asia is a collection of 30 chapters dealing with the most significant scholarly debates in this rapidly growing field of study. Structured in four main parts, it gives a comprehensive regional overview of, and insight into, the environment in Southeast Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315474878
• Artikelnr.: 45971403

Autorenporträt

Philip Hirsch is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests are in agrarian change, natural resource management and the politics of environment in Thailand and the wider Mekong region.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction
1. Introduction: The environment in Southeast Asia's past, present and
future
Part 2: Thematic approaches to environment
2. Understanding the physical environment of Southeast Asia: A prerequisite
for better environmental management
3. Environmental histories of Southeast Asia
4. Population growth and environmental degradation in Southeast Asia
5. Environmentalism
6. A Southeast Asian political ecology
7. Environmental neoliberalism in Southeast Asia
8. Environmental law in Southeast Asia
9. Environmental governance and decentralization
10. Transboundary environmental politics in Southeast Asia: Issues,
responses and challenges
Part 3: Sectoral issues in natural resources and environment
11. Forests and biodiversity
12. Shifting cultivation and human interaction with forests
13. Water, rivers and dams
14. Social and political ecology of fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast
Asia
15. Urban environmental transitions in Southeast Asia
16. Peri-urbanization and environmental issues in mega-urban regions
17. Adaptation to climate change in Southeast Asia: Developing a relational
approach
18. Migration and the environment
Part 4: Regional and country studies in environment
19. The role of ASEAN in shaping regional environmental protection
20. The Mekong: Strategic environmental assessment of mainstream hydropower
development in an international river basin
21. Cambodia: Territorialisation of natural resources and environmental
management
22. Indonesia: A political-economic history of environment and resources
23. Laos: Abundance, scarcity and the shifting role of natural resources
24. Malaysia: Structure and agency of the environmental movement
25. Myanmar: Evolving environmental governance under a regime in transition
26. The Philippines: Historical and geographical framing of ecological
degradation and environmental governance
27. Singapore: Sustaining a global city-state and the challenges of
environmental governance in the twenty-first century
28. Thailand: Whither gender in the environmental movement?
29. Timor Leste: Embracing resource governance through ritual in a
post-conflict society
30. Vietnam: Governmental and societal response to emergent environmental
issues in the Mekong Delta