People-centred approaches to environmental management in the Asia-Pacific region
By: edited by Jerry Velasquez ... [et al.].
Contributors: Velasquez, Jerry.
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Sustainable development -- Asia.; Sustainable development -- Pacific Area.; Environmental management -- Asia.; Environmental management -- Pacific Area.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview / Jerry Velasquez, Makiko Yashiro, Susan Yoshimura and Izumi Ono; title: Community innovation for sustainable development : concepts and approaches; title: Local to global connections : community involvement and sustainability / Diane Warburton and Susan Yoshimura; title: Being innovative, against the odds; title: Charles Landry; title: Mainstreaming innovative approaches to sustainable urban environmental management in Asia; title: Nathaniel von Einsiedel; title: Case studies from the Asia-Pacific region; title: Natural resource management from hunting to sustainable use : a pashtun tribal group's innovations, Northern Bolochistan, Pakistan / Luc Bellon; title: Highland encounters: building new partnerships for conservation and sustainable development in the Yangtze River headwaters, the heart of the Tibetan plateau, China / J. Marc Foggin; title: Tourism; title: Sustainable tourism planning and management in Klong Khwang, Thailand / Walter Jamieson and Pawinee Sunalai; title: Mangrove conservation through ecotourism development by the Bobongko people in the Togean Islands, Indonesia, Sundjaya; title: Forest management; title: Innovative community-led sustainable forest resource conservation and management in Baybay, Leyte, the Philippines / Victor B. Asio and Marlito Jose M. Bande; title: Waste management; title: Waste management activities in Nagoya City, Japan : local government and community partnerships / Teruhiko Yoshimura and Rika Kato; title: People, partnership and profits in managing solid waste in Guimaras, the Philippines / Andrew C. Farncombe, Francis E. Gentoral and Evan Anthony Arias; title: Water management; title: Integrated catchment management in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Basin, Australia / Amit Chanan; title: Water management in Rajasthan, India : making a difference / Darryl Romesh d'Monte; title: Conclusion : critical elements for achieving community innovation / Makiko Yashiro; title: Index.