Format:
Online-Ressource (XXI, 361p. 34 illus)
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digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Earth and Environmental Science
ISBN:
9784431679455
Series Statement:
The State of Environment in Asia
Content:
I Asia by Theme -- 1 Energy Policies and Choices Put to the Test -- 2 Mining and Its Environmental Damage -- 3 Wandering Wastes -- 4 Asia’s Marine Environment Hangs in the Balance -- 5 Conservation and Local Self-Government -- II Asia by Country and Region -- 1 Republic of the Philippines -- 2 Socialist Republic of Vietnam -- 3 India -- 4 Country/Region Updates -- III Indicators -- 1. Income Differentials and Growing Consumption -- 2. Industrial Safety and Health -- 3. Health and Education -- 4. Reproductive Health/Rights and Population -- 5. The Late Starter’s Advantage and Detrimental Legacies -- 6. Biodiversity and Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture -- 7. Wood Production and Trade -- 8. The State of Forest Resources -- 9. Fishing Effort Increase and Marine Fisheries Resources -- 10. Protected Areas -- 11. The Asian Wildlife Trade as Revealed by Japan’s Imports -- 12. Biodiversity -- 13. Rapid Urbanization -- 14. Motorization Rolls On -- 15. Expanding Mining Production and Damage -- 16. Municipal and Hazardous Wastes -- 17. Paper Recycling: The North-South Connection -- 18. Water Environment in Crisis -- 19. Nuclear Power Proliferation and Nuclear Weapons -- 20. Global Warming Policies and Joint Implementation in East Asia -- 21. Progress in Environmental Legislation -- 22. Environmental NGOs -- 23. Environmental Conventions and Agreements in Asia -- Notes -- References -- Translator’s Afterword.
Content:
In December 1977 we published the first in this series of NGO-oriented reports on Asia's environment, Ajia Kankyo Hakusho 1997/98. This was published in English by Springer-Verlag as The State o/the Environment in Asia 1999/2000. Although only a few years have passed since then, Asia has seen tumultuous changes in the political, economic, social, environmental, and other domains, as well as a number of prominerit trends that could be regarded as harbingers of the new century. China, for instance, could henceforth decisively affect the evolution of environmental problems not only in Asia, but across the entire globe. Yet Chinese concern for and initiatives on pollution and environmental damage have increased more quickly than could have been anticipated just a few years ago. And on Taiwan, where a Democratic Progressive Party president was elected over the long-ruling Nationalist Party, an attorney who has cooperated with our pollution surveys for a decade, Hsieh Chang-ting, became mayor of Taiwan's largest heavy and chemical industry city of Kaohsiung, where he has begun a "Green Revolution. " On the Ko rean Peninsula, which has for many years endured the division of its people, as well as political and military tensions, there are the beginnings of a new North-South dialog. These changes are all welcome to those of us who wish to see new advances in environmental cooperation throughout Asia.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9784431703457
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9784431703457
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9784431679462
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-4-431-67945-5
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