1st Edition

Environmental Change in South-East Asia People, Politics and Sustainable Development

Edited By Raymond Bryant, Michael Parnwell Copyright 1997
    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    List of plates, List of figures, List of tables and boxes, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, 1 INTRODUCTION: POLITICS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA, Part I Context, Part II Process, Part III Method, Part IV Options, Bibliography, Index

    Biography

    Bryant, Raymond; Parnwell, Michael