Environmental Policies in Asia

Perspectives from Seven Asian Countries

Environmental Policies in Asia highlights the environmental challenges Asian planners and policymakers face as the continent undergoes rapid economic growth in the 21st Century. Edited by Jing Huang and Shreekant Gupta, with contributions from leading Asian scholar practitioners, this timely and unique volume is the first of its kind to look at environmental policies and governance from the perspective of seven dynamic Asian countries. These include developed economies of Japan and Singapore, emerging giants such as China and India and rapidly developing nations such as Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia. The volume discusses environmental challenges that stem from issues as local as poor recycling practices, to ones that are as vast and complex as global climate change. Engaging, accessible, and pan-Asian in scope, the essays also present creative ways in which these challenges are being addressed. This book is valuable to anyone who is keen on understanding Asia, its growth, and whether its rise is environmentally sustainable.

Contents:

• Introduction:

  • Environmentally Sustainable Development in Asia: Challenges and Choices (Jing Huang)

• Key Issues in Combating Environmental Concerns in Asia:

  • Environmental Policy and Governance in a Federal Framework: Perspectives from India (Shreekant Gupta)
  • Japan's Role in Climate Change Issues (Ryuzo Yamamoto)

• Environmental Impacts of 'Fast Development in Asia':

  • Policies for Environmentally Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Vietnam (Nguyen Huu Ninh)
  • Resource-Environmental Foundation for Green and Low-Carbon Development in China (Zhu Shou-xian)
  • China's Environmental Governance: Evolution and Limitations (Wu Fuzuo)
  • Fragmentation to Integration: Environmental and Sustainable Development Challenges in Malaysia (Chee Yoke Ling and Lim Li Ching)

• Environmental Policy Implementation: Achievements and Challenges:

  • Governing the Common Firm: The Evolution of Environmental Policy for Small Businesses in India (Sudhir Chella Rajan)
  • Environmental Management 3.0: Connecting the Dots between Pollution, Sustainability, Transparency and Governance in Indonesia (Shakeb Afsah and Nabiel Makarim)
  • Environmental Law, Policy, Governance and Management for Cities: Getting it right for a Sustainable Future — The Singapore Experience (Lye Lin-Heng)
  • Trade-offs and Synergies for Sustainable Development and Climate Stabilisation in Asian regions (Keigo Akimoto, Fuminori Sano, Ayami Hayashi, Takashi Homma, Junichiro Oda, Kenichi Wada, Miyuki Nagashima, Kohko Tokushige and Toshimasa Tomoda)

• Concluding Thoughts:

  • Future Environmental Challenges for Asia (Shreekant Gupta)

Readership: Environmental policy students, general public interested in Asia and its challenges, policymakers, envrionmental professionals and practitioners.
Key Features:

• No books on environmental policies in Asian countries have been published in recent years so this collection is unique and the first of kind
• Unique in its pan-Asian focus; the first volume to draw together eminent Asian scholar-practitioners on this topic
• Explicit focus on environmental issues, which is very timely (e.g., global warming is a pressing issue)