The Changing Asia Pacific Environment
Author | : Ghafar Baba |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ghafar Baba |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jolene Lin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108804918 |
This is the first scholarly examination of climate change litigation in the Asia Pacific region. Bringing legal academics and lawyers from the Global South and Global North together, this book provides rich insights into how litigation can galvanize climate action in countries including Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and China. Written in clear and accessible language, the fourteen chapters in this book shed light on the important question of how litigation may unfold as a potential regulatory pathway towards decarbonization in the world's most populous region.
Author | : Pak Sum Low |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2022-01-13 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1009040294 |
The Asia-Pacific region has been experiencing rapid development in the past 30 years, and issues relating to sustainable development will become increasingly important in the coming decades. This comprehensive overview presents sustainable development from the perspectives of Asia and the Pacific, with contributions from more than 70 leading international experts. The first part focuses on the theories and practices of sustainable development, including national and regional perspectives, as well as international policies and law concerning climate change. The second part highlights the challenges and opportunities of sustainable development and poverty reduction amid the changing ecological, social, cultural, economic, and political environment in this region. These include issues such as the importance of science for sustainable development and related areas, including sustainable energy, stratospheric ozone depletion, climate change, land-use change, biodiversity, and disaster risk reduction. The volume is an invaluable reference for all researchers and policy makers with an interest in sustainable development.
Author | : Walter Leal Filho |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2015-04-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3319149385 |
This book investigates the socio-economic impacts of Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific region. The authors put forward a strategy and action plans that can enhance the capacity of government agencies and non-governmental organizations to reduce the negative impacts of climate change. The needs and interests of critical and neglected groups are highlighted throughout the book, alongside the need for improving knowledge management on climate change. The case studies presented offer regional analyses for countries such as Australia, Bangladesh, China, Fiji, India, Mongolia, Nepal and the Philippines and cover issues such as livelihood vulnerability and displacement, climate migration, macroeconomic impacts, urban environmental governance and disaster management.
Author | : John Connell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2006-12-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134138911 |
This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have stimulated local resilience amongst communities and led to evolving regional institutions and environment management practices, changing social relationships and producing new forms of stratification. Bringing together case studies from across mainland Southeast Asia and the Island Pacific, an expert team of international contributors reveal how communities at the periphery take charge of their lives, champion the virtues of their own local systems of production and consumption, and engage in the complexities of new structures of development that demand a response to the vacillations of global politics, economy and society. Inherent in this is the recognition that 'development' as we have come to know it is far from over. Each chapter emphasizes the growing recognition that ecological and environmental issues are key to any understanding and analysis of structures of sustainable development. Providing diverse multidisciplinary theoretical and empirical perspectives, Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific makes an important contribution to the revitalization of development studies and as such will be essential reading for scholars in the field, as well as those with an interest in Asia-Pacific studies, economic geography and political economy.
Author | : Nobuo Mimura |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2008-01-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1402036256 |
The Asia and Pacific region is home to the world’s largest concentration of coral reefs and mangroves. It accommodates two-thirds of the world’s human population and its economic activities have the highest growth rate in the world. This book gives an overview of the state-of-the-art understanding on the drivers, state, and responses to the coastal environmental changes in the Asia and Pacific region. It provides important perspectives on the subject for researchers.
Author | : Mikiko Kainuma |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2002-10-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9784431702641 |
The Asia–Pacific Integrated Model (AIM) brings together more than 20 computer simulation models for development and analysis of policy in such diverse fields as climate change mitigation, air pollution abatement, and ecosystem preservation. This first book in a series on the development of AIM focuses on climate change issues and the evaluation of policy options to stabilize the global climate. It presents an overview of the models developed to date, their structure, and the results and analyses presented to policymakers and researchers at the levels of individual Asian countries, the Asia–Pacific region, and the world at large. The contents vary in scope from local to global issues, with discussions of the effects of climate policies, cost analyses of climate policies with their effects on trade, and global scenario analyses. Also included are impact analyses and the effects of promoting environmental technologies.
Author | : Jolene Lin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108478468 |
Comprehensively examines the role that litigation can play in galvanizing climate action in the Asia Pacific Region.
Author | : Md Saidul Islam |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2021-04-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030707539 |
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book evaluates the complex nexus between climate change and regional food security in Asia Pacific. Feeding the planet puts a lot of stress on the environment. The fundamental challenges we are facing today include how to grow more from less in a sustainable manner; how to optimize the entire food value chain from field to fork to reduce the carbon footprint, protect the environment and support biological diversity, cause less water pollution and soil erosion, raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the growth of the world economy. With a robust multi-site study in Southeast Asia, Pacific Island Forum and South Asia, this book examines the regional initiatives on, the current state of, and the future prospects for mitigations and resilience regarding climate change and food security vis-à-vis other regions of the world.
Author | : Asian Development Bank |
Publisher | : Asian Development Bank |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2017-07-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9292578529 |
Asia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world's poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated warming could largely diminish previous achievements of economic development and improvements, putting the future of the region at risk. Read the most recent projections pertaining to climate change and climate change impacts in Asia and the Pacific, and the consequences of these changes to human systems, particularly for developing countries. This report also highlights gaps in the existing knowledge and identifies avenues for continued research.