ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|19 pages
Introduction
part I|70 pages
Context
chapter 3|18 pages
Environmental NGOs and Different Political Contexts in South-East Asia
part II|67 pages
Process
part III|69 pages
Method
chapter 9|34 pages
Mapping the Environment in South-East Asia
part IV|106 pages
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