Low Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-009-04029-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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The Asia-Pacific region is experiencing especially rapid development and population increase, and issues of global change and sustainable development are likely to be of particular importance in the coming decades. This book presents chapters by leading international experts on the major issues relating to global change and sustainable development from the perspectives of Asia and the Pacific. It also highlights the challenges and opportunities of sustainable development and poverty reduction within the changing ecological, social, cultural and economic environment in this region. The volume is an invaluable reference for all researchers and policy makers with an interest in global change and sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Low, Pak Sum

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors; Peer Reviewers; Editor's Note; Forewords; Remembering Dr Mostafa K. Tolba; Acronyms and Abbreviations; SI Prefixes; Units Abbreviations; Chemical Formulae; Part I. Sustainable Development: Theories and Practices: 1. Asian Immensities; 2. On Sustainable Development; 3. Sustainability – A Scientific Dilemma; 4. Respect and Reward: Ecology from the Analects of Confucius; 5. Sustainable Development from an East-West Integrative Perspective: Eastern Culture Meets Western Complexity Theory; 6. Sustainable Urbanism: Measuring Long-term Architectural Merit; 7. Sustaining Wooden Architectural Heritage; 8. Green Development in China; 9. Bhutan's Sustainable Development Initiatives in Pursuit of Gross National Happiness; 10. A Different Form of Sustainable Development in Thailand and Bhutan: Implementation of a Sufficiency Approach; 11. The Sustainability of Food Production in Papua New Guinea; 12. Education for Sustainable Development: An overview of Asia-Pacific Perspectives; 13. Placemaking Framework for Social Sustainability of Master-planned Communities: A Case Study from Australia; 14. Poverty, Inequity and Environmental Degradation: The Key Issues Confronting the Environment and Development in Asia; 15. The Challenge of Global Climate Change for International Law: An Overview; 16. Sustainable Development and Climate Change Negotiations: Perspectives of Developing Countries'; Part II. Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities: 17. Scientific Responses in an Era of Global Change; 18. Government Communication on Transboundary Haze: The Nexus between Public Health and Tourism; 19. Biomass Energy Prospects: A Promising Fuel for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific; 20. Pathways to a More Sustainable Electricity Sector in India; 21. Gender Equality and Energy Access: Barriers to Maximizing Development Effectiveness in the SAARC Region; 22. The Biosphere and the Interactions between Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Climate Change; 23. The Political Challenge of Linking Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies: Risks and Prospects; 24. Social Vulnerability to Climate Change in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam; 25. Sustainable Development in Bangladesh: Bridging the SDGs and Climate Action; 26. Sustainable Development in Pakistan: Vulnerabilities and Opportunities; 27. Beyond Protected Areas: Biodiversity Conservation and Global Change in Asia and the Pacific; 28. Causes of Land Use Change and Biodiversity Loss in Monsoon; 29. Assessing Linkages between Land Use and Biodiversity: A Case Study from the Eastern Himalayas Using Low-cost, High-return Survey Technology; 30. Where to Invade Next: On Biological Invasions and Sustainable Development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Tropical South Pacific; 31. Did the Indian Ocean Tsunami Trigger a Shift Towards Disaster Risk Reduction?; 32. Cyclone Nargis and Disaster Risk Management in Myanmar; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Low, Pak Sum
Dr Pak Sum Low joined China–ASEAN College of Marine Sciences of Xiamen University Malaysia in September 2020 as an adjunct professor. He is a fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia; a member of the International Advisory Panel of the International Programme on Climate Change and Variability Risk Reduction initiated by the Pacific Disaster Centre, Hawaii, in 2009; and a member of the editorial board of World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, and International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development. He is the editor of Climate Change and Africa (Cambridge 2005). Dr Low has previously worked as the Regional Adviser on Environment and Sustainable Development (2001–2007) at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP); Programme Officer/Senior Programme Officer (1991–1999) at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); and Senior Research Associate (1988–1991), Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UK. He was visiting professor/adjunct professor at Bond University, Australia (2009–2018), the inaugural Yayasan Sime Darby Chair in Climate Change at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (2011–2013); a senior visiting professor at the UNEP International Ecosystems Management Partnership (IEMP), hosted by the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (2011–2012); and a visiting professor at the Institute of Desertification Studies, Beijing (2013, 2015).