Book Confronting Environmental Change in East and Southeast Asia

Confronting Environment Change in East and Southeast Asia: Eco-politics, Foreign Policy and Sustainable Development

　

Paul G. Harris, editor

(London: Earthscan/United Nations University Press, 2005)

　

Contents

(Click on the chapter titles for abstracts)

　

Chapter 1	Introduction: Confronting Environmental Change - Lessons from East and Southeast Asia - Paul G Harris

Part 1 Environment, Foreign Policy and Diplomacy in East Asia: Actors, Institutions and Forces
Chapter 2	Environmental Politics and Foreign Policy in East Asia: A Survey of China and Japan - Paul G Harris
Chapter 3	The Environment and Japanese Foreign Policy: Anthropocentric Ideologies and Changing Power Relationships - Mika Merviö
Chapter 4	Japan and Global Climate Change: The Intersection of Domestic Politics and Diplomacy - Hiroshi Ohta
Chapter 5	Environmental Degradation and Security in Maoist China: Lessons from the War Preparation Movement - Judith Shapiro
Chapter 6	The ‘Troubled Modernizer’: Three Decades of Chinese Environmental Policy and Diplomacy - Yuka Kobayashi
Chapter 7	‘Panda Diplomacy’: State Environmentalism, International Relations and Chinese Foreign Policy - Jonathan Harrington
Chapter 8	Taiwan’s International Environmental Policy: Balancing Trade and the Environment - Wen-chen Shih

Part 2 Eco-Politics, International Relations and Strategies for Sustainable Development in East
and Southeast Asia
Chapter 9	China and the Climate Change Agreements: Science, Development and Diplomacy - Ho-Ching Lee
Chapter 10	Thailand and the Convention on Biological Diversity: Non-governmental Organizations Enter the Debate - Jak Sangchai
Chapter 11	Mekong River Politics and Environmental Security - Peter Stoett
Chapter 12	Protecting the Marine Environment: International Assistance and the Vietnam Sea - Tran Duc Thanh,Tran Dinh Lan and Pham Van Luong
Chapter 13	Sustainable Development in Canada and Taiwan: Comparative and International Perspectives - Tse-Kang Leng
Chapter 14	Community-based Conflict Management and Environmental Change: A Case Study from Papua New Guinea -Phillip Scott Jones